Dhanapāla on Chess (from the R̥ṣabhapañcāśikā)
The 10th-century poet Dhanapāla, whom I have written about a lot on this blog lately, includes an early reference to the game of chess (actually I don’t know how early it is, relative to other evidence — I am sure there has been some scholarship on this that I am not aware of) in one…
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