Ancient Indian Boardgames: Digital Documentation

Title (dcterms:title)

Kasadi

Description (dcterms:description)

Kasadi is a boardgame played by two players. It is usually played with either a wooden board with seven pits on both sides or even making pits or drawing circles on the ground if a board is absent. Kasadi is known as Thotogoti, KasaKaudi, and KanjiPata in different region of Odisha. According to its rules and the structure of the board it could also be stated as a variant of Mancala which is prevalent in several parts of India, known popularly by their local names.
It is believed that this game is also known as Sita- khel. Sources mention, when Sita was imprisoned in the Ashok vatika she was used to play this game.
The wooden board of kasadi or sita-khel was also available in the royal families of Odisha where the princes were used to play the game with their companions and were learning counting and measuring.

Alternative Title (dcterms:alternative)

Mow korkatia / Longbeuacha (Assamese ), Sat-gol (Hindi), Ali Guli Mane (Kannada), Vai Lung Thlan (Mizo), Kanji guti (Odia), Khutka boia (Punjabi ), Pallanguzhi/ Pallankuli (Tamil), Vamana Guntalu (Telugu), Chenna Maaney (Tulu), Pachgarhwa (Urdu), Til-goti, Chal goti (Mundari), Sat Gharoa (Bihar), Bakri (Chattisgarh)

Rules (dcterms:instructionalMethod)

Two rows of seven small pits are made in the ground and seven tamarind stones are placed in each pit. One of the players starts the game by moving his stones. He picks up the stones from one of his pits and then drops them one by one into the successive pits. When he finishes distributing the stones, he takes up all the stones from the next pit and does the same again. If the last stone from the pitfalls into one of the player's empty holes, he takes possession of all the stones of the following pits. But if two holes are empty after the pit where the last stone falls, then he loses his round. The opponent plays in the same way.

Source (dcterms:source)

Kasadi- An Introduction to Traditional Games of Western Odisha

Ramkatha in Oral Narratives and folk performance of Orissa- Sita Khel

Contributor (dcterms:contributor)

Sanjaya Kumar Bag and Mahendra Kumar Mishra

Rights (dcterms:rights)

Creative Commons

Format (dcterms:format)

Boardgames

Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial)

Odisha

Variants (dcterms:isVersionOf)

Cenne Mane

Khutki Boia

Sat Gol Game

Gud Phale

Pachgharwa (five spaces/homes)

Düzalé

Kasadi

Interview with Professor Priya Sangameswaran (CSSSC): On Playing Pallanguzhi/Pallangudi in Palakkad

Rules of Pallankuzhi

Sat- Gharoa

Mawkar Katiya

Mancala, Pataleshwar (7)

Mancala, Pataleshawar (8)

Incomplete Mancala, Pataleshwar (6)

Mancala, Pataleshwar (4)

Mancala, Pataleshwar (5)

Entered by (dcterms:accrualMethod)

Adrija Mukherjee

Tags (dcterms:conformsTo)

Kasadi

Mancala

Odisha

Two-player

Cowrie