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Evidence for Pulijudamu
3 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1840
Type Ethnography
Location 15°19'29.65"N, 76°28'10.86"E
Date 2003-01-01 - 2003-12-31
Rules A triangle, with a line drawn from the apex to the base. A rectangle intersects with the triangle, and has a line connecting the midpoints of the short sides. One player plays as the tiger(s), one to four in number. The other player plays as five to 23 goats (or dogs, or lambs). The tiger is placed on the apex of the triangle, and any additional tigers on the spots adjacent to the apex. The tiger player moves by moving a piece to an empty adjacent spot along the lines of the board. The goat player begins by placing a goat on an empty point on the board, and then the tiger player moves. When all of the goats are placed, they move like the tiger. The tier may capture a goat by hopping over it to an empty spot on the opposite adjacent side of the goat along the lines of the board. The goats win by blocking the tiger(s) from being able to move; the tiger(s) win by capturing enough goats to prevent them from blocking it/them.
Content "Three tigers and fifteen lambs, played on 19 points. One player has 3 tigers and the
other 15 lambs which are commonly called as “dogs”; the tiger is usually placed on the
apex of the triangle and the second player enters his lambs. All the pieces move in the
same way, one step along a marked line, but the lambs cannot be moved until all are
entered. The tiger, which alone can capture, takes lambs by the short leap. The tiger
wins if he takes so many lambs that they cannot confine him; the lambs win if they succeed in reducing the tiger to immobility.General rule: the number of tigers varies from 1 to 4, and the number of goats from
5 to 23. General notion in the region is that the Grand Master is one who plays with
more number of tigers and less number of lambs. Locally this game is also termed a gambling game." Vasantha 2003: 28.
Confidence 100
Social status Non-Elite
Source Vasantha, R. 2003. "Board Games from the City of Vijayanagara (Hampi), 1336-1565: a survey and a study." Board Game Studies 6: 25-36.
Id DLP.Evidence.1841
Type Contemporary text
Location 15°19'29.65"N, 76°28'10.86"E
Date 1500-01-01 - 1500-12-31
Rules Name of the game.
Content "Nanjunda, in his Ramanatha charite (1500), has devoted a chapter on games played
at Vijayanagara, and narrates how princess Hariyaladevi advised his son Rama not to
play the ball game, the hunt game (pulijudam) and the game played with cowry shells,
which were meant only to ordinary people and not to royalty" Vasantha 2003: 28.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Non-Elite
Source Vasantha, R. 2003. "Board Games from the City of Vijayanagara (Hampi), 1336-1565: a survey and a study." Board Game Studies 6: 25-36.
Id DLP.Evidence.1842
Type Artifact
Location 15°19'29.65"N, 76°28'10.86"E
Date 1200-12-31 - 2003-12-31
Rules A triangle, with a line drawn from the apex to the base. A rectangle intersects with the triangle, and has a line connecting the midpoints of the short sides.
Content Graffiti Pulijudamu board from the ruins of Vijayanagara. Vasantha 2003: Fig. 5.
Confidence 100
Spaces Ritual
Source Vasantha, R. 2003. "Board Games from the City of Vijayanagara (Hampi), 1336-1565: a survey and a study." Board Game Studies 6: 25-36.
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