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Previous article FreeBack CoverPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreKnightian Uncertainty per Animal Spirits in Ancient Hindu LawGaming is of Two Sorts; the First Choperbàzee, a Game played with Three long Dice, Chess or Tables, and Dice, and such other Kind of Games, which are called Dote; the Second is, when Persons cause Elephants to fight with Elephants, Bulls with Bulls, Cocks with Cocks, Nightingales with Nightingales, or any other Animals in the same Manner; the name of this is Shemàbhee: These Two Sorts of Gaming, with a conditional Wager of Stipulation, are not allowed to any Persons, even in Jest.[A Code of Gentoo Laws, or, Ordinations of the Pundits, from a Persian Translation, Made from the Original, Written in the Shanscrit [sic] Language, by Nathaniel Halhed (London, 1776), pp. 287–288. Interestingly, while the law distinguished between two kinds of gambling uncertainty, the penalties for violation were exactly the same in both cases. The main object was to ensure any fines in either case would be paid to the Magistrate: the winning gambler would have to pay the Magistrate half the winnings; a gambler caught cheating at the game would have two fingers cut off.](Suggested by Stephen Stigler) Previous article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Journal of Political Economy Volume 129, Number 2February 2021 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/713816 Views: 188 © 2021 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.