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... Reign of Naushīrawān - Firdausī's Shāhnāma— Arrangement of the Pieces on the Board - Their Moves and Powers 46 CHAPTER VII . • SHATRANJ CONTINUED - On the Invention of Chess in India - according to the Historians of Persia and Arabia ...
... Reign of Naushīrawān - Firdausī's Shāhnāma— Arrangement of the Pieces on the Board - Their Moves and Powers 46 CHAPTER VII . • SHATRANJ CONTINUED - On the Invention of Chess in India - according to the Historians of Persia and Arabia ...
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... reign of Kisrā Naushīrawān , the Chosroes of the Byzantine historians , and the contem- porary of Justinian . We have shown , however , that the game virtually existed in India , some thousands of years previously ; and we have every ...
... reign of Kisrā Naushīrawān , the Chosroes of the Byzantine historians , and the contem- porary of Justinian . We have shown , however , that the game virtually existed in India , some thousands of years previously ; and we have every ...
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... reign of our gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria ( who now rules over those same Eastern realms ) —that is , for a period of five thousand years ; and that this very ancient game , in the sacred language of the Brahmans , has , during ...
... reign of our gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria ( who now rules over those same Eastern realms ) —that is , for a period of five thousand years ; and that this very ancient game , in the sacred language of the Brahmans , has , during ...
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... Reign of Nau- shirawan . Arrangement of the Pieces on the Board . Their Moves and Powers . THE earliest and best account of the Shatranj , or mediæval Chess , to which we have as yet attained access , is that given by the poet Firdausi ...
... Reign of Nau- shirawan . Arrangement of the Pieces on the Board . Their Moves and Powers . THE earliest and best account of the Shatranj , or mediæval Chess , to which we have as yet attained access , is that given by the poet Firdausi ...
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... reigns . Naushīrawān , in particular , attended to this duty , so worthy of a Prince ; and the compilation , thus carried on at uncertain intervals , was brought to a close under the reign of Yazdijird , the last of the Sassanian race ...
... reigns . Naushīrawān , in particular , attended to this duty , so worthy of a Prince ; and the compilation , thus carried on at uncertain intervals , was brought to a close under the reign of Yazdijird , the last of the Sassanian race ...
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