Five ancient Indian board games
Five ancient Indian board games
Five ancient Indian board games
By Richa Nigam
September 14, 2020
Summary
The Covid-19 lockdown has forced people to stay home for more than five months, resulting in an unprecedented rise in gaming, both the new online ones as well as the online versions of traditional indoor board games.
Ludo King has become one of the most downloaded games in India.
Some of the earliest shreds of evidence of board games come from Indus Valley Civilisation in the form of archaeological finds.
The exact nature of the games and their rules are difficult to ascertain.
Like Irving Finkel, a British assyriologist, have tried to study the nature and rules of such games by looking at contemporaneous board games like ludo, chess and carom.
Here is a list of five ancient board games from India.
Chaturanga was one of the more popular aristocratic games of ancient India.
The Pallankuzhi game is known as Kuzhipara in Malayalam and is the oldest form of the Mancala game.
Played mostly in the north-eastern part of India, especially Arunachal Pradesh, Jhandi Munda is an Indian die-based betting game.
The game uses six dices which have six sides each and a gaming board.
Reference
Nigam, R. (2020, September 14). Five ancient Indian board games. Retrieved September 15, 2020, from https://mediaindia.eu/culture/five-ancient-indian-board-games/