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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Snakes and Ladders is one of the most successful board games ever marketed. It was introduced by British game manufacturers in the late nineteenth century, but its history can be traced back to the religious Vaishnava and Jaina communities in eighteenth-century Western India. It was known there as the 'Game of Knowledge' and variously used for entertainment, education, divination, and self-exploration. The board was a map of the universe, the pawns were the souls traveling through it, the dice the karma controlling them, and the snakes and ladders the ups and downs on their journey toward spiritual liberation. The Game of Knowledge: Playing at Spiritual Liberation in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Western India tells the fascinating story of board games from its origin in mystical charts of the astral body to its modern adaptation as an abstract children's game. The story is told through beautifully handcrafted gameboards and little-known texts and manuscripts. The facts are presented with scholarly rigour yet easily grasped by the attentive reader.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorToke Lindegaard Knudsen, Ph.D. (2008), Brown University, is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Oneonta. He has published on astronomy and mathematics in ancient and medieva.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Body and Cosmos is a collection of articles published on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Professor Emeritus Kenneth G. Zysk. The articles revolve thematically around the early Indian medical and astral sciences, which have been at the center of Professor Zysks long and esteemed career within the discipline of Indology. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is devoted to the medical sciences, the second part to the astral sciences, and the third part to cross-cultural interactions between India and the West, which runs like an undercurrent throughout the work of Professor Zysk. The articles are written by internationally renowned Indological scholars and will be of value to students and researchers alike.…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. English text.; 29.5 x 30.5 cm.; 3.1 kg.; 424 pages, 212 photos, 68 illustrations.; LIMITED EDITION OF 400 COPIES.; New. Please note that this book is sold without a protective plastic cover. Consequently, minor signs of handling may be present on the cover and air bubbles may occasionally be visible.; The astounding artistry of António Horta-Osório's antique chess collection is now being revealed to the world, one volume at a time. Volume 1: India highlights the antique chess sets of India and the Indian subcontinent. Master craftsmen from different regions within India, working solely with primitive tools, created exquisitely beautiful chess sets that have stood the test of time for many years, and for many years yet to come. This 424 page reference volume includes fourteen scholarly chapters written by leading chess experts and historians, complemented by 212 high-resolution photographs and 68 illustrations. The game of chess brings to life some of the defining features of our humanity: intellect, imagination, creativity, and the appreciation of artistic beauty. These features are on display whenever a chess game is played, whenever the pieces are moved across the board. And not only within the strategy of the game: the chess pieces themselves can be objets d'art of the highest order, especially those from distant lands and from centuries past. Thirty-two miniature sculptures, each of which bears the hallmarks of history and the symbolism of subjects within their respective kingdoms. Over the past several decades, Sir António Horta-Osório has built a world-class collection of the best antique chess sets, chess boards, and chess pieces. His collection is considered by many to be the finest such collection ever assembled. The subsequent volumes will cover other regions of the world and will be published within the next several years, each with the same painstaking attention to top-quality production as the current volume.…