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² Compare A.A., I, 218-9, for a diagram of *chaupar*; also P., 22, for a game in progress. Note that the Kshatriyas still retained their reputation of ‘being without equals in swordsmanship, the virtue of generosity’ and of course in gambling by throwing the dice of chaupar. Compare the interesting observations of Macdonnel on the relations of chaupar with the ancient *Chaturanga*, J.R.A.S., 1898, 140. Compare the popularity of chaupar with Hindu saints. Mira Bai plays a game of chaupar with her favourite god Girdhar (*vide* Macauliffe, 348). Compare P. (hin), 141, for a whole description of Malik Muhammad Jaisi in metaphors borrowed from chaupar.