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... hence we see clearly the meaning of a verse in the Latin poem given by Hyde , from a MS . of the twelfth century , pre- served in the Bodleian , viz . , " Firmum pactum Calvi te- nent , neque sibi noceant , " i.e. , " The Bishops ...
... hence we see clearly the meaning of a verse in the Latin poem given by Hyde , from a MS . of the twelfth century , pre- served in the Bodleian , viz . , " Firmum pactum Calvi te- nent , neque sibi noceant , " i.e. , " The Bishops ...
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... Hence it must have occasionally happened , that only one player on each side remained , to conduct the whole allied forces , and this result very naturally gave rise to the medieval game of Shatranj , of which more hereafter . " 4 ...
... Hence it must have occasionally happened , that only one player on each side remained , to conduct the whole allied forces , and this result very naturally gave rise to the medieval game of Shatranj , of which more hereafter . " 4 ...
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... few and simple , that almost any four persons may play it , provided one of the four be acquainted with the moves of our own game , so as to guide the others . Hence it is admi- rably adapted for a social family game , being , IV.
... few and simple , that almost any four persons may play it , provided one of the four be acquainted with the moves of our own game , so as to guide the others . Hence it is admi- rably adapted for a social family game , being , IV.
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... Hence we have every reason to conclude that the game of Chaturanga was generally played amongst the strictly religious and orthodox Hindūs , by two or four persons , as the case might be , without the aid of dice , and that in the ...
... Hence we have every reason to conclude that the game of Chaturanga was generally played amongst the strictly religious and orthodox Hindūs , by two or four persons , as the case might be , without the aid of dice , and that in the ...
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... Hence , in the Sanskrit language , the game under all its phases is called Chaturanga , and nothing else ; for , throughout all its varieties , " the four species of forces " are the same numerically , though changed in a few instances ...
... Hence , in the Sanskrit language , the game under all its phases is called Chaturanga , and nothing else ; for , throughout all its varieties , " the four species of forces " are the same numerically , though changed in a few instances ...
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