Dyoot means gambling and Kreedaa means sporting or playing. These games require time and the risk of losing money. So long as one gives limited time and money to them so as not to neglect one's duties, it is good for entertainment; yet people of feeble mind or feeble will are unable to limit the time and money to lose. Rig Ved has severely warned against these games -

(1) [Rig Ved, 10-34-2] My wife is good natured. She never quarreled with me. She was loving to me and kind to my friends. I have driven her away from me because of my addiction to gambling.

(2) [Rig Ved, 10-34-3] My wife has rejected me; and my mother-in-law dislikes me. No one is offering help to me - a compulsive gambler, who has lost everything, I am as unwanted as an old horse.

(3) [Rig Ved, 10-34-13] Do not play with dice. Till your land and rejoice in your income and properly so obtained, feeling great about it. Consider yourself fortunate for possessing your cattle and having your wife with you. This is the message that Savitar has revealed to me.

There are several examples of playing gambling (Dyoot Kreedaa, or dice game) in the history of India that point out that how people have lost their everything in gambling. The following two are most famous --

(1) Yudhishthir lost his kingdom, brothers, wife and even himself to Duryodhan in dice game. As a result of this game his wife Draupadee had to suffer extreme humiliation . They lived in the forest for 12 years and 1 year in A-Gyaatvaas. All this ended in MBH war in which millions of people were killed.

(2) The other classic case is of King Nal, who played dice game with his brother Pushkar and lost his kingdom. He had to leave his kingdom and go to forest with his wife. The couple suffered lots of humiliation, deprivation and temporary separation.