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... nature of fact , only the details are highly coloured . The best original account of this very ancient game to which we have yet obtained access , is to be found in the Sanskrit Encyclopædia , entitled " Shabda - Kalpa- Druma ...
... nature of fact , only the details are highly coloured . The best original account of this very ancient game to which we have yet obtained access , is to be found in the Sanskrit Encyclopædia , entitled " Shabda - Kalpa- Druma ...
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... nature of the game that is played on the eight - times - eight squared board . Tell me , O my master , how the Chaturāji1 may be accomplished . Vyasa thus replied : " O my Prince , having delineated a square board , with eight houses on ...
... nature of the game that is played on the eight - times - eight squared board . Tell me , O my master , how the Chaturāji1 may be accomplished . Vyasa thus replied : " O my Prince , having delineated a square board , with eight houses on ...
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... nature of cer- tain situations , & c . , that may occur in the course of play , viz . , Singhāsana , Chaturāji , Nripakrishta Shatpada , Kā- kakashta Vrihannaukā , and Gāḍhāvați . " Singhāsana . — When a King moves to the square of ...
... nature of cer- tain situations , & c . , that may occur in the course of play , viz . , Singhāsana , Chaturāji , Nripakrishta Shatpada , Kā- kakashta Vrihannaukā , and Gāḍhāvați . " Singhāsana . — When a King moves to the square of ...
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... nature of the situation called Vrihannauka which is best done by means of a diagram , thus : - : - YELLOW . J b y g y g b Ꭹ + " хоѵтя r g b 4 r g r g b 4 r g b Ꭹ b r b T RED . GREEN . Let the letters g , y , b and r , represent the ...
... nature of the situation called Vrihannauka which is best done by means of a diagram , thus : - : - YELLOW . J b y g y g b Ꭹ + " хоѵтя r g b 4 r g r g b 4 r g b Ꭹ b r b T RED . GREEN . Let the letters g , y , b and r , represent the ...
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... nature that has come down to us . In the Chatu- ranga we have before us all the elements of the game of Chess , for ... natural kind , being merely a step in advance on the high road of improvement , similar to the change from the ...
... nature that has come down to us . In the Chatu- ranga we have before us all the elements of the game of Chess , for ... natural kind , being merely a step in advance on the high road of improvement , similar to the change from the ...
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