History of ancient indian games

These miniature versions of kitchen utensils and other household items were scaled down to the greatest detail and were made from copper and brass.

These were played with by children as they watched their mothers cook and their family members make use of every day household items. Today, these miniature utensils give us an idea of what life was like in rural households. The Pachisi board was made of cloth in a patchwork design. Each arm of the Pachisi has three marked squares, which are called 'castles. The players throw cowrie shells on the Char Koni and the move of the pawns are determined by the number on the shells that fall with the open face.

The objective of the game is to get all the four pawns, allocated to each player, to complete the round of the board as fast as possible. Today, the game has modern variants like Ludo and American Parcheesi. Chauka Bara was a traditional race game similar to Pachisi where players raced their respective coins on a board of 5x5 squares which the objective of who would reach the innermost square the fastest.

Strategy was the main skill required to win the game as each player had 4 coins each and could move them at any time. This game is said to have its origins in the Ramayana when it was created by Rama for Sita to pass her time in captivity. T he game begins with six seeds placed in each cup. The player starting first picks up the seeds from any of the holes and, moving anti-clockwise, places one seed in each hole. If she reaches the end of her cups she goes on the other side of the board.

When the player drops the last seed she has, she takes the seeds from the next cup and continues placing them in this way.

If the last seed falls into a cup with an empty cup following it, the seeds in the cup following the empty cup, are captured by the player. This game is played on Shivratri in the southern states. Four handed Chaduranga is the predecessor of the modern Chess. The game is played by four players unlike two players on the conventional chess board and also involves the component of chance in the form of a single stick dice known as the daala.

Four players form two teams of two players. Player-1 plays together with player-3, and player-2 plays together with player Each player gets 8 characters each, 4 pawns, 1 elephant, 1 horse, 1 ship and 1 elephant. Puppets were not only the tools of skilled puppeteers, they were also used by parents to tell stories to their children.

Children also used puppets to create their own stories spurred by their imagination. It gave them a way to convey their emotions by transferring it to an inanimate object. To allow us to provide a better and more tailored experience please click "OK".

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