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Evidence for Bara Guti (Bihar)
1 pieces of evidence found.
Id DLP.Evidence.1643
Type Ethnography
Location 25°36'39.65"N, 85° 8'44.34"E
Date 1935-01-01 - 1935-12-31
Rules Three concentric circles, with four diameters dividing it into eight equal sections. Twelve pieces per player, placed on the points on one half of the circle, leaving the central point open. Players alternate turns Moving one of their pieces to an empty adjacent spot along the lines. A piece may capture an opponent's piece by hopping over it to an empty spot immediately on the opposite side of the opponent's piece along the lines. The player who captures all of the opponent's pieces wins.
Content "1. Bara-guti.
The information about this game was gathered from a bearer attached to the Archeological Museum at Nalanda ; he belongs to the Patna district. The figure used for playing the game consists of three concentric circles which are divided into eight parts by four diameters ; these meet the concentric circles at 24 cross-points. Two persons are required to play this game, 12 cross-points on four contiguous radii belonging to each of them. Each player provides himself with twelve pieces of ballets which are placed at these twelve cross-points. The rule of the game is that, at the beginning, one of the two rival players shifts one of his ballets to the centre which is the only vacant point ; then his opponent shifts one of his ballets to the vacant cross-point. The usual rule of capturing a piece of the adversary by, jumping over it to the next cross-point, if it is vacant, is followed, quite irrespective of whether the piece is on the diameter or on the circumference, for the pieces may be moved not only
on the radii but also along the arcs of the circumference. In this way the player who can capture all the pieces of the opponent wins the game. " Das Gupta 1935: 409-410.
Confidence 100
Ages Adult
Social status Non-Elite
Genders Male
Source Das Gupta, C. 1935. "A Few Types of Sedentary Games from Bihar." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 1: 409-418.
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