122 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. | April, 1906. 
: Each of the two players has18 “‘men,’’ represented, as usual, 
among the thrifty villagers, by pieces of kankar on the one, and of 
tiles on the other side. The middle space is left vacant, and the 
nalas that from which it starts. Captures are made, as in 
draughts, by leaping over the piece to be captured in any direc- 
tion, provided that all three spaces are in the same straight line. 
ny number of pieces may be captured in succession in one move. 
In no part of the board is a piece safe from capture : not even in 
its own bungalow, as the triangular excrescences at either end of 
the board are called. 
For obvious reasons it is considered advisable to oceupy the 
spaces along the edges of the board, and particularly those at 
either extremity of the horizontal diameter of the original square. 
_ The game is decided when one player has succeeded im cap- 
turing all his adversary’s “ men.” 
Kowwu Dunki, 
There are several variants of this game. Of these, one, known 
as “ Kowwa unki,” is played on a board of 21 spaces, arranged 
as in the accompanying diagram ( Fig. 4). 
Fig. 4. 
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