Ancient Indian Boardgames: Digital Documentation

Title (dcterms:title)

Unidentified Game (Variant of Gol Ekuish)

Description (dcterms:description)

This game was documented by Sunder Lal Hora at Kalijhora at present Kalimpong district. The informant of these games was a local man of the area who was of Nepali origin. Credit also has been given to Mr. F.D Raj of Kalimpong who helped confirm the rules and the descriptions of the documented games.
This particular game is untitled or unidentified as the informant could not obtain proper details about it except for the structure of the board. He also states that Mr. F.D. Raj could also not provide the rules of the game.
The structure of the board is exactly similar to Gol-ekuish and if this was another variant the exact rules are unknown. But with the information available in his recorded essay Hora explains that the board consists of seven concentric circles divided by three diameters, thus there are 42 points in which the diameters meet the circles. Two players are required to play the game, one has a large number of ‘goats’ (unfortunately the number could not be understood) and the other plays with only one ‘tiger’. The usual rules of the tiger-play are observed, but the movement can be in all directions and not only along straight lines. In Gol-ekuish each player has 21 ballets which are placed at 21 cross points arranged along three consecutive radii. Thus even with a similar board two or more kinds of lay patterns are possible.

Alternative Title (dcterms:alternative)

Pretwa, Gol Ekuish

Rules (dcterms:instructionalMethod)

The exact rules of the game remains unknown

Creator (dcterms:creator)

Sunder Lal Hora

Source (dcterms:source)

‘Sedentary Games of India’ by Sunder Lal Hora in Sedentary Games of India eds. Nirbed Ray and Amitabha Ghosh

Contributor (dcterms:contributor)

Sunder Lal Hora

Rights (dcterms:rights)

Creative Commons

Format (dcterms:format)

Boardgames

Medium (dcterms:medium)

Boardgames on Text

References (dcterms:references)

‘Sedentary Games of India’ by Sunder Lal Hora in Sedentary Games of India

Spatial Coverage (dcterms:spatial)

West Bengal

Variants (dcterms:isVersionOf)

Unidentified Game (Variant of Gol Ekuish)

Bara- Guti

Gol-Ekuish

Pretwa: Downloadable Boardgame

Pretwa

Entered by (dcterms:accrualMethod)

Adrija Mukherjee

Tags (dcterms:conformsTo)

Sedentary Games

Kalimpong

Unidentified