Raja Rasalu

<em>Source</em>.--Steel-Temple, <em>Wideawake Stories</em>, pp. 247-80, omitting "How Raja Rasalu was Born," "How Raja Rasalu's Friends Forsook Him," "How Raja Rasalu Killed the Giants," and "How Raja Rasalu became a Jogi." A further version in Temple, <em>Legends of Panjab</em>, vol. i. <em>Chaupur</em>, I should explain, is a game played by two players with eight men, each on a board in the shape of a cross, four men to each cross covered with squares. The moves of the men are decided by the throws of a long form of dice. The object of the game is to see which of the players can first move all his men into the black centre square of the cross (Temple, <em>l. c.</em>, p. 344, and <em>Legends of Panjab</em>, i. 243-5) It is sometimes said to be the origin of chess.