Period Medieval

Region Southern Asia

Category Reconstruction, Done, Board, Race, Escape

Description

Pasakakrida is a race game that was described in the Manasollasa, a twelfth-century CE Sanskrit text from India. The game could be played with either four-sided or six-sided dice.

Rules

24 long rounded spaces, arranged in two rows of twelve, and each row split into two groups of six. Fifteen pieces per player, one with white pieces and the other with colored pieces. Two four-sided dice, with the values 2, 3, 4, 5. The pieces start in the following arrangement: White with two in the top right space and one in the first from the top right, two pieces in each of the six bottom right spaces; colored pieces with five each in the sixth from the top right, sixth from the top left, and the bottom left. Pieces are sent back to the beginning when another player's piece lands on an opponent's piece. A player's piece cannot land on a space that is occupied by more than one of the opponent's pieces. Pieces move according to the throws of the dice.


Bock-Raming 1995a.

These rules were taken from the Two Four-Sided Dice ruleset.

All Rulesets

Reconstructed rulesets
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 2) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 3) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 5) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 6) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 7) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 8) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 9) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 10) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 2) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 2) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 1) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 2) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 3) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 5) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 3) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 5) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 3) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 4) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 8) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 9) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 10) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 6) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 7) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 8) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 9) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Four-Sided Dice) (Ludii 10) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 6) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 7) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 8) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 9) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Two Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 10) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 5) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 6) Reconstructed with Ludii
Pasakakrida (Type 3) (Three Six-Sided Dice) (Ludii 7) Reconstructed with Ludii

Incomplete rulesets
Two Four-Sided Dice Played with two four-sided dice.
Three Four-Sided Dice Played with three four-sided dice.
Two Six-Sided Dice Played with two six-sided dice.
Three Six-Sided Dice Played with three six-sided dice.

Origin

India

Ludeme Description

Pasakakrida (Type 3).lud

Concepts

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Reference

Bock-Raming 1995: 114-115.

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Sources

Bock-Raming, A. 1995. "The Literary Sources of Indian Chess and Related Board Games." In A. de Voogt (ed.), New Approaches to Board Games Research: Asian Origins and Future Perspectives. Leiden: International Institute for Asian Studies.

Bock-Raming, A. 1995a. Untersuchungen zum Indischen Wurfelspiel in nachvedischer Zeit I: Das Backgammon nach der Darstellung des Manasollasa. Seevetal: Egbert Meissenburg.

Identifiers

DLP.Games.1470

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