Vol. LI, No. 4.) Notes on “ Pachesi,”’ etc. 125 
[N.S.] 
Quite recently, on visiting a ruined Chandel temple known - 
the “ Baldewa” close to the railway line, about two miles from th 
Karwi railway station, I found the “ board ” of this game siabked 
on one of the vertical sides of a slab in the wall of the inner 
shrine, It was isnposkint to resist the conclusion that the game 
had been played on that stone before it had been used for the 
building of the temple. 
Pachgarhwa. 
Another ones which appears to be more popular than its in- 
trinsic interest would seem to merit, is known as “ Pachgarhwa,” 
It is played 1 by two Apes who take opposite sides ofa board 
of ten spaces, arranged as in the accompanying diagram (Fig. 8). 
Fig. 8. 
he game commences by each player D apo five pieces of 
kankar or similar material on each of the five spaces th his sides 
of the 
There i is no distinction in size, colour or material Silden the 
“men” of either player. 
When the board has been thus set out, the player whose turn 
it is to move takes up the five pieces from any one of his spaces 
and proceeds to work round the board from the space to the right 
of that from which he has just taken the pieces. He drops a piece 
oneach space, whether of his own or his adversary’s, as he 
roceeds. 
en he has thus exhausted his five “ men,” he takes up the 
pieces on ee sixth and continues the process, until he hap- 
pens to deposit his last “ ‘in ” on aspace, the next in order to which 
. When this occurs i 
he as y 
on the space immediately —— sve vacant one. His turn then 
ste sin 
us the game, which i is willie interminable, goes on until 
all the pieces on the board are exhausted, Even then it does not 
stop, s again by each player filling up as many spaces as 
he then has multiples of five in his ion. If one player has, 
say, three, and the other two “men” over, then each has an interest 
in one square proportionate to the number of pieces placed by him 
on i 
By that time things began to get ears and I was un- 
_able to discover how, if ever, the game did e 
