You had heard of the immorality and the numerous evils of playing at dice, dilated upon by Sahadeva. Yet you could not forego those evils practised by the wicked alone. It is but for this that we are steeped in distress.
अक्षेपु दोषा बहवो विधर्माः श्रुतास्त्वया सहदेवोऽब्रवीद् यान्। स्तेन स्म सर्वे निरयं प्रपन्नाः॥