That which is especially auxiliary in the accomplishment of the action, of the verb div 'to play' is called karma - object, as well as karaṇa,
The present sutra ordains accusative case, where by the operation of the last aphorism there ought to have been Instrumental case. The force of च in the sutra is to indicate that karana is also to be read into this. As अक्षात् दीव्यति or अक्षै र्दीव्यति he plays the dice or with the dice.,