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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...
- Var****ap. The fast is
broken on
Akshaya Tritiya. He
attained Moksha on
Mount Ashtapada. The text Adi
Purana by Jinasena,
Aadesvarcharitra within the...
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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...
- Pitaka.
Games on
boards with 8 or 10 rows. This is
thought to
refer to
ashtapada and
dasapada respectively; however,
later Sinhala commentaries refer to...
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mythological aspects ****ociated with the Himalayas. In Jainism,
Mount Ashtapada of the
Himalayan mountain range is a
sacred place where the
first Jain...
- respectively.
Chaturanga was pla**** on an 8×8
uncheckered board,
called ashtāpada.
Thence it
spread eastward and
westward along the Silk Road. The earliest...
- 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...
- Siddhakshetra – Site of the
moksha of an
arihant (kevalin) or tirthankara, such as:
Ashtapada of Rishabhanatha,
Shikharji of 20 Tirthankara,
Girnar of Neminatha, Pawapuri...
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squares or more.[non-tertiary
source needed]
Chess was
designed for an
ashtāpada (Sanskrit for "having
eight feet", i.e. an 8×8
squared board),
which may...
