Manu 9.222
प्रकाशम् एतत् तास्कर्यं यद् देवनसमाह्वयौ । तयोर् नित्यं प्रतीघाते नृपतिर् यत्नवान् भवेत्) ॥
prakāśam etat tāskaryaṃ yad devana.samāhvayau | tayor nityaṃ pratīghāte nṛpatir yatnavān bhavet) ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
Gambling and betting amount to open theft; the king shall always exert himself in suppressing both (of them).
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.