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Vikramacarita (BR)
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Chapter: S27 
27. Story of the Twenty-seventh Statuette
Vikrama reforms a gambler

Brief Recension of 27


Paragraph: 1 
Line: 1    punaḥ putrikayo 'ktam: rājann ākarṇaya.
Line: 2    ekadā rājā mahīṃ paryaṭan yoginīpuraṃ gataḥ. tatra mahākālikālaye 'ṣṭaga/vākṣaramyaṃ
Line: 3    tapovanaṃ sarovaraṃ cā 'sti. tatra racanāṃ dr̥ṣṭvā rājā kṣaṇam
Line: 4    upaviṣṭaḥ. tāvad divyacandanavastrālaṃkārabʰūṣitas tāmbūlamukʰaḥ sadr̥śa/dvipuruṣasahitaḥ
Line: 5    ko 'pi śrīmān pumān āgatya gavākṣa upaviṣṭaḥ kṣaṇaṃ stʰitvā
Line: 6    punar api nirgataḥ. rājā tu ko 'yam iti vicārya tatrai 'vā 'staparyantaṃ stʰitaḥ.
Line: 7    tāvat sa eva puruṣo dīnānanaḥ kravyāda ūrdʰvakaccʰa āgataḥ. rājño 'ktam: bʰo
Line: 8    mahāpuruṣa, tvaṃ gatadine ramyaḥ śrīmān dr̥śyase sma; saṃprati kim īdr̥śīṃ daśāṃ
Line: 9    gataḥ? teno 'ktam: mame 'dr̥śaṃ karma. rājño 'ktam: kas tvam? teno 'ktam:
Line: 10    dyūtakāro 'ham; rājan, sāripʰalaṃ sotkaṇṭʰaṃ ca caturaṅgaṃ ca kapardakaṃ co
Line: 11     'ccalitamuṣṭiṃ ca gatāgataṃ *ca daśacatuṣkaṃ ca cīraṇīyaṃ ca dʰūlikaṃ ca kʰelituṃ
Line: 12    jānāmi. śabdaḥ śapatʰaḥ sarvam asatyam; daivam eva satyam. rājño 'ktam: yady
Line: 13    evaṃ jānāsi, tato 'vakalā bʰavati, vastrāni hāryante, tarhi tvaṃ kiṃ kʰelasi? teno
Line: 14     'ktam: rājan, indrapadād apy amr̥tād api tasmin dyūte priyo mahāraso 'sti. tad
Line: 15    ākarṇya vihasya ca rājā tūṣṇīṃ stʰitaḥ. teno 'ktam: haṃho mitra, yadi madartʰe
Line: 16    patʰyaṃ karoṣi, tarhi śriyam ānayāmi. rājño 'ktam. devo yad ādiśati, tat kariṣye.
Line: 17    evaṃ vadatos tayor dvau mahāntau devālayam āgatau, parasparaṃ goṣṭʰī jātā kilā
Line: 18     'smin kalpe: aṣṭabʰairavāṇām aṣṭāṅgaraktaṃ yadi dīyate, kaṇṭʰaraktaṃ kālikāyai
Line: 19    ca, tatprasannadevatābʰyo manīṣitaṃ prāpyate. tad ākarṇya rājñā 'ṣṭāṅga/raktam
Line: 20    aṣṭabʰairavebʰyaḥ kaṇṭʰagatam kālikāyai ca dattam. devyo 'ktam: rājan,
Line: 21    prasannā 'smi, varaṃ vr̥ṇu. rājño 'ktam. yadi prasannā 'si, tarhy asya dyūtakārasya
Line: 22    hārikā mā 'bʰūt. devyā tatʰe 'ty uktam; rājā dyūtakāram abʰeṭayitvā gataḥ.   [mā bʰūt?]
Line: 23    putrikayo 'ktam: rājann īdr̥śam audāryam yasya bʰavati, tenā 'tro 'paveṣṭavyam.

Line: 24    iti saptavim̐śatimī katʰā






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