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Evidence for Hat Diviyan Keliya
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.837
Type Ethnography
Location Sri Lanka
Date 1873-01-01 - 1873-12-31
Rules Board size and layout, number of pieces, tiger starts on the apex, leopards are entered one by one, tigers capture leopards, leopards win when checking the tiger, tiger wins when capturing so many leopards they cannot check the tiger.
Content " Games, however, much on the same principle as draughts are not uncommon, and while the Hatdiviyan or "Seven Leopards" may be taken as the simplest...The former is played with seven pieces representing the leopards, and one representing the tiger. The moves are made in a triangular diagram with one perpendicular line in the middle and two cross lines at right angles to it (See Diagram A). The player or the tiger lays down his piece first, and as the apex of the triangle is the most advantageous, chooses that. The other player then lays down a piece when the tiger makes a move. Until all the seven pieces are laid, there is very little chance, if skillfully played, of taking apiece or checking a tiger. When all the pieces are laid, the moves go on with greater deliberation until either the tiger is checked, or the great number of leopards being taken, all hopes of checking the former is lost; when the game ends." (Ludovisi 1873: 33–34).
Parker 1909: 581 mentioned that he does not know it from the interior of the island.
Murray 1951: 106–107 repeats Ludovisi's description.
Confidence 100
Source Ludovisi, L. 1873. 'The sports and games of the Singhalese.' The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 17–41., Murray, H.J.R. 1951. A History of Board-Games Other Than Chess. Oxford: Clarendon Press., Parker, H. 1909. Ancient Ceylon. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services.
, Ludovisi, L. 1873. 'The sports and games of the Singhalese.' The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 17–41.
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