Verse 33

²⁶For that happy occasion, king, Rukmini and Rama and Kesava, and Samba and Pradyumna and the others, went to the city of Bhojakata. ²⁷When the wedding was over, the kings headed by the Kalinga, being full of themselves, said to Rukmi: Beat Bala at dice. ²⁸This man knows nothing of dice, king, and yet the craving for them is strong in him. So urged, Rukmi called Bala over and played at dice with him. ²⁹Rama laid down a stake there of a hundred, and of a thousand, and of ten thousand. Rukmi won it, and the Kalinga laughed aloud at Bala with his teeth showing; the bearer of the plough did not put up with that. ³⁰Then Rukmi took up a stake of a hundred thousand, and Bala won that throw. But Rukmi took to cheating and said: I have won it.

³¹Stirred up with anger like the sea at the turn of the moon, glorious, his eyes red by birth and redder with rage, he laid down a stake of a hundred million. ³²That too Rama won, and won it fairly. But Rukmi took to a trick and said: I have won it. Let the umpires here say so. ³³Then a voice out of the sky said: The stake was won by Bala, and won by right. Rukmi is speaking a lie, and speaking it in words alone.