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Evidence for Demala Diviyan Keliya
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.760
Type Contemporary rule description
Location South India Sri Lanka
Date 1909-01-01 - 1909-12-31
Rules Played with three "leopards" and fifteen "dogs." The pieces are placed on the intersections of the lines, and move along the lines to the next intersection. The game starts with the leopards on the board, but in the beginning the player controlling the dogs places one dog on an intersection until they are all on the board. After this, the dogs move in the same manner as the leopards. The leopard can hop over a dog as in draughts, capturing it. The leopard wins the game if it captures more than half of the dogs, the dogs win if they block the leopard from being able to move.
Content "Demala Diviyan Keliya, or Koti Sellama. 'The Tamil Leopards' Game.
The board is an enlarged form of that of the preceding game, all the lines being extended so as to provide an additional set of positions for the pieces on the three sides of the triangle.
Three 'Leopards' and fifteen pieces called 'Dogs' are required for this game, which is played exactly like the last one. Capturing the Dogs is termed 'chopping' them (v. kotanawa). The game is well known in southern India, from whicb country it was doubtless imported into Ceylon, as its name indicates. Its Hindustani name is Rafaya. Some extend the lines so as to make an extra set of positions for the pieces outside those described above." Parker 1909: 581.
Confidence 100
Source Parker, H. 1909. Ancient Ceylon. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services.
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