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Evidence in Maharashtra
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.2090
Type Contemporary rule description
Game Udat Pagada
Date 1905-01-01 - 1905-12-31
Rules Played on a Chaupar board. Two players. Four pieces per player. Seven cowries, used as dice. The throws are as follows: one face up = 10; two faces up = 2; three faces up = 3; four faces up = 4; five faces up = 25; six faces up = 36, though in many places it is 30; seven faces up = 14; all faces down = 7. Players start from opposite ends of the board. In this game, the divisions of the arms of the board are ignored; each arm is considered one spaces, and the spaces between the arms are also considered a space, making eight total spaces. Players sit opposite each other, and the point in front of them is the starting point for that player. Play proceeds in an anti-clockwise direction. When one player's piece lands on a space occupied by an opponent's piece, the opponent's piece is captured. A player wins by capturing all of the opponent's pieces.
Content Detailed rules, as provided in Anant Babaji Deodhar's Sachitra Marathi Khelamce Pustak (The Illustrated Book of Marathi Games). Translated by Dnyaneshwari Kamath. Deodhar 1905; Kamath 2020: 27.
Confidence 100
Ages Child
Genders Female
Source Deodhar, A. 1905. Sachitra Marathi Khelamce Pustak. New Delhi: Times of India Press., Kamath, D. 2020. "Games: Then and Now." In R. Gowri Raghavan and D. Kamath, eds. Playing with the Past. Mumbai: India Study Centre Trust.
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