Ancient Indian Boardgames: Digital Documentation

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Tabul Phale

Description (dcterms:description)

This is an 18th c. indigenous board game of Goa called Tabul Phale, from the collection of Bagore Ki Haveli Museum in Udaipur. Its nomenclature derives from the wooden plank/board called ‘Tabul’ and the dicing sticks called ‘phale’. It is a two player game, with 12 pegs or pieces each of two different colours aligned on opposite sides of the board. The 4 sticks are painted and rounded on one side, and plain on the other.

The 12 x 4 squared board or ‘phale’ is vibrantly awash in colours of yellow, orange, and olive green, decorated with floral motifs on the side, known as ‘chitari’ art, named after the Chitari community, in Demani Village in Cuncolim, Goa that produces it today. They make all sorts of artefacts and toys using this art form such as advoli (traditional cutting board), paat (wooden stool), wooden vegetables and gunjifa cards.

Alternative Title (dcterms:alternative)

Tabul Fale, Tablan, Tablaa

Rules (dcterms:instructionalMethod)

How to Play Tabul Phale

Contributor (dcterms:contributor)

Hiya Prakash- The Heritage Lab

Rights (dcterms:rights)

Creative Commons

Format (dcterms:format)

Boardgame

References (dcterms:references)

Tabul Phale, a Goan board game- Heritage Lab

Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial)

Goa

Variants (dcterms:isVersionOf)

Bheri Bakri

Tabul Phale

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Tablan, Handmade

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Tablan, Pataleshwar

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Tablan

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Adrija Mukherjee

Tags (dcterms:conformsTo)

Tablan

Games of Goa

Karnataka

Tabul Phale

Race Game

Two-player

Dice