[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [State papers](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin) › [Āʾīn-i Akbarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari) › [The Ain i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett) › 218.2 # The Institutes of Akbar 218.2 The Áín i Akbari (Blochmann, Jarrett) 218.2 - **Language:** English ### [218.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.218.2) When arrived at the latter place, he is pukhtah (ripe), and from here, he must throw for each of his pieces the exact numbers which will carry them to the empty square in the centre of the figure. He is now rasidah, or arrived. When a player is pukhtah or rasidah, he may commence to play from the beginning, which leads to amusing combinations. As long as a player keeps two of his pieces together, the adversary cannot throw them out. If a player throws a double six, he can move two pieces over twelve spaces, provided the two pieces stand together on one field; but he is allowed to move them only six fields onwards, should he prefer doing so. A similar rule holds for double fives, &c. A throw consisting of a six, a five, and a one, is called kham (raw); and in this case, two pieces, provided they are together on the same field, may each be moved six fields forwards, and every single piece twelve fields. If a player throws three sixes, and three of his four pieces happen to stand on one field, he may move each of them over twelve fields. A similar rule holds, if a player throw three twos, or three ones. There are many other rules for particular cases. If a player has brought his four pieces into the central square, he throws, when his turn comes, for his companion, to get him out too. Formerly the custom was that when a piece had come to the last row, and..... His Majesty thinks it proper to do so from the very eighth field. - [Previous: 218.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.218.1) - [Next: 218.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.218.3) - [Up: 218](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.218) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.218.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.admin.ain-i-akbari~en-blochmann-jarrett.218.2) · Pramāṇa