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# Manava Dharmashastra 9.221

Mānava Dharmaśāstra 9.221

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [9.221](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.221)

dyūtaṃ samāhvayaṃ caiva rājā rāṣṭrān nivārayet  
rājāntakaraṇāv etau dvau doṣau pṛthivīkṣitām //

> Gambling and betting let the king exclude from his realm; those two vices cause the destruction of the kingdoms of princes.  
> — Georg Bühler 1886, The Laws of Manu

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## Translations (1)

- [The Laws of Manu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu~en-buhler.9.221) — Georg Bühler 1886, English

## Commentaries (7)

- [Mānavāryabhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!manavaryabhasya.13.177) — Sanskrit
- [Manubhāṣya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!medhatithi) — Medhātithi, Sanskrit
- [Manuṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthamuktāvalī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!kulluka) — Kullūka Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
- [Manvarthacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!raghavananda) — Rāghavānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- [Manuvākyālaṅkāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-manuvakyalankarini) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit
- [Manvāśrayānusāriṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu!govindaraja-bhatta) — Govindarāja, Sanskrit

## Linked texts (5)

- [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v4.c63.992) — P. V. Kane, English
- [Social and Rural Economy of Northern India, cir. 600 B.C.–200 A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.economy.bose-1942.v2.c34.s10.31) — Atindranath Bose, English
- [Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.jolly-1896.c9.66) — Julius Jolly & Batakrishna Ghosh, English
- [Krīḍākauśalya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.kala.kridakausalya.10.675) — Harikṛṣṇa Veṅkaṭarāma Jyotirvid, Sanskrit
- [Mānavadharmasāra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.manavadharmasara.p174) — Śivaprasād, Sanskrit

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