GK
INVENTIONS
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Chausar
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Chatarunga
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Detailed explanation-1: -The story behind the Modern Name – Chess When a form of Chaturanga spread to Persia, the Persian rulers changed the king from Sanskrit ‘rajah’ to the Persian ‘shah’. In Persia, checkmate was called “shaamat”.
Detailed explanation-2: -Each of the game’s pieces represents one of the four divisions of the Indian army at that time. The name of the game, chaturanga, roughly translates to “four limbs” from Sanskrit, an allusion to those divisions, which were infantry, elephantry, cavalry, and chariots. Chaturaji, the four-player version of chaturanga.
Detailed explanation-3: -Modern-day chess traces its origins to the ancient Indian game of Chaturanga, whose Sanskrit name refers to the “four limbs” of the Gupta Empire’s army: infantry, cavalry, chariots and war elephants.