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Ashtāpada (Sanskrit: अष्टापद) or
Ashtapadi is an
Indian board game
which predates chess and was
mentioned on the list of
games that
Gautama Buddha would...
- dew; the only feet cut off were
those of measurements, and only from
Ashtâpada one
could learn how to draw up a chaturanga,
there was no cutting-off...
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constitute Black's side. The
earliest known ancestor of the
chessboard is the
Ashtāpada board.
Among other games, it was used to play chaturanga, a historical...
- site of
moksha liberation of an
arihant (kevalin) or
Tirthankaras like
Ashtapada Hill, Shikharji, Girnar, Pawapuri, Palitana, Mangi-Tungi and Champapuri...
- respectively.
Chaturanga was pla**** on an 8×8
uncheckered board,
called ashtāpada.
Thence it
spread eastward and
westward along the Silk Road. The earliest...
- Pitaka.
Games on
boards with 8 or 10 rows. This is
thought to
refer to
ashtapada and
dasapada respectively, but
later Sinhala commentaries refer to these...
- The Jain
Center of
America (JCA) was the
first Jain
temple organized and
registered in America, in 1976, and is the
oldest Jain
temple in the
Western hemisphere...
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couplets (eight sets of two lines). It is also the
source of the word
ashtāpada, an
Indian board game, the
forerunner of chess.
Although the original...
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identified as
Mount Ashtapada, a
mythical mountain in Himalayas.
Hemchandra identified the
location of
first Jain
temple with Shatrunjaya.
Ashtapada is frequently...
- respectively.
Chaturanga was pla**** on an 8×8
uncheckered board,
called ashtāpada.
Shogi was the
earliest chess variant to
allow captured pieces to be returned...
