Compiled by London Swaminathan
Post No.1224; Dated 9th August 2014.

Do not Gamble:
“Do not play with dice; cultivate your corn fields,
Delight in the gain, thinking highly of it.
There are your cattle, gambler, there is your wife”
So has the noble Savitri told me
———–Rig Veda 10-34-13, Rishi Kavasha, son of Elusha.

BHAGAVAD GITA
I am gambling among the deceiting –Bhagavad Gita 10-36
Dyuutam chalayataam asmi (Lord Krishna in BG 10-36)

TIRUKKURAL by Tiruvalluvar
Gambling ruins a man’s fortune, and corrupts the innate honesty,
It also hardens the heart and brings on endless misery (Tirukkural 938)

Do not take to gambling even if you can win. What can the fish gain by swallowing the baited hook? (Tirukkural 931)

Wealth, including food and dress, as well as the glory, resulting from learning,
Will desert the man, who seeks gain only from gambling? (Tirukkural 939)

Is there a future for the gambler to thrive, when he loses hundreds,
To gain only one in the bargain? (Tirukkural 932)

SANSKRIT SAYINGS
Gambling, to a man, is a kingdom without a throne —-Mrcchakatika
Dyuutam naanma purusasya asimhasanam raajyam

Gambling is the root of all evils Bharata Manjari 2-11-340
Dyuutam sarva apadaam mulam

What will not a defeated fraudulent gambler hesitate to do? –Katha Sarit Sagara
Dyuutanaatasya kim naama kitavasya hi duskaram

Gambling is the destruction of wealth— Bharat Manjari 2-11-308
Dyuutamunmuulanam sriyah

Gamblers do not neglect a chance of profit, even to their very end Rajatarangini 3-393
Na paryante pyupeksante kitavaah svaarthasaadhanam

Don’t ridicule the defeated gambler Satopadesa prabandha
nopahasennirjitam dyuute

Players of dice become the abode of craftiness Brhat Katha Manjari
Bhavanti dyuutakaaraa padam dhiyah

By all means a gambler is despicable Vikrama Carita 3-98
Haa dyuutakaaram satadaah dhigastu

Source: Rig Veda, Bhagavad Gita, Tirukkural, Suktisudha by Chinmaya International Foundation