India as Known to Panini: A Study of the Cultural Material in the Ashtadhyayi c8.s13.t1.41

c8.s13.t1.41

*ANOTHER BOARD GAME*—Pāṇini also refers to a game resembling draughts or the Indian *chaupar*, which must have been played on a board (*ākarsha*, V.2.64) divided into squares, and in which the essential thing was the movement of the gamesmen from square to square in accordance with the results of the throw of the rival players. The gamesmen were known as *śāra* and the movement of the pieces as *pariṇāya* (*pari+nāya* in the sense of *dyūta*, III.3.37), *pariṇāyena hanti śārān* (example on Pāṇini, III.3.37), i.e. he hits the rival gamesmen by an encircling movement (*samantan-nayanena*) of his own pieces.