Indian Antiquary Vol 11

SR No.: 032503
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 396
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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APRIL, 1882.]
MISCELLANEA.
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groups of trees,-together with the siddhi, &c., and (buried) gold, up to the ends of its boun- daries,--together with fines and faults and (the proceeds of punishments inflicted for the ten (classes of) offences, -and together with all the proceeds of the proper shares and enjoyments and taxes, &c. No obstruction should be caused to him who enjoys it or causes it to be enjoyed, or cultivates it or causes it to be cultivated."
(L. 44.)-And it has been said by the holy Vyâsa, -He is born as a worm in ordure for the duration of sixty thousand years, who
takes away land that has been given, whether by himself or by another !
(L. 45.)- At the command of Sri-D antivarma, who is attended by a crowd of kings, this charter, which illuminates his noble fame, has been written by that Indra, who is not puffed up by prosperity,-who, applying himself to the welfare of others, is possessed of intellect, - and who, (saying to himself) “What confidence is there in the wealth of the great ?" is desirous of conferring a favour upon even them.
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MISCELLANEA. A NOTE ON THE KNIGHT'S TOUR OR THE traversed in the same manner, and the next
KNIGHT'S TRICK AT CHESS. This problem, as some of the readers of this
being exactly one move distant. The diagram journal may know, is such that it has been deemed
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TOTT not unworthy of solution by some of the greatest
WT European mathematicians Ozanam, De Moivre and Euler, who have given us more or less intricate
रा methods by which the Knight (the Horse as he is called by the Hindus) can traverse all the squares
जा था without returning to any that he has previously
IT occupied. Of all the methods the writer of this note believes there is perhaps none so ingenious as the one given in Indian Reminiscences, a posthumous work printed in London in 1837, containing some racy articles written mostly by a Madras Civilian, G. A. Anderson. But even that method is intricate and difficult to remember, taxing not a little of one's patience and attention.
There are two ways of solving this puzzle. In the one given below in mnemonics, the first annexed sufficiently explains itself. It will be seen equare and the sixty-fourth square are not exactly
at a glance that the first line may run along the a Knight's move distant from each other. In the bottom upwards or along the top dowrlwards, either other and more perfect, the two squares are dis
from the left or the right, horizontally or vertically tant by just one move.
producing in all eight modifications of the same How far the Hindus to whom the world owes
solution. the invention of chess have succeeded in studying
Bhaunagar, 16th June 1881. J. N. U. this problem, the writer has no means of ascer. taining. But he is in possession of a mnemonical
NOTES AND QUERIES. Anushtubh sloka given him by an old Brahman
3. CHATTY.-At page 87 ante Mr. Fergusson some years ago, and gives it here.
asks the derivation of chatty. The sloka implies the division of the board into
This may help. In Northern India chatd is two halves of thirty-two squares each; when one
used frequently for the large earthen vessel into half of the board is completely traversed by the
which the juice of the sugarcane is received as it Knight the other is to be begun in the same manner.
runs from the mill. Chati is a small chdtd. For The sloka runs as under and has no real mean
& complete account of the method of making ing: the order of the moves strictly follows the
sugar in Northern India, together with the names letters of the Sanskrit alphabet, the vowel signs
of all the instruments used, see Carnegy's Kachahri being added for the metre and for variety to aid
Technicalities, Allahabad Mission Press, 1877, the memory :
article akh. Dr. Fallon connects chats with केशझनागभहाय तेधखेवभराघवे।
chat, taste, relish, and with chatnd to lick, lick पाजाथापचम्मेठे दाणाहाछलडोफङ॥ . up-New Hindustani Dictionary: but I do not It is to be remarked that in the sloka the letter know his authority or reasons. In Panjabi F is omitted, the letter is therefore the thirty- chatta is a large earthen vessel and cháttt=an second, and the other half of the board can be earthen churn. As regards the use of the word
He was a collateral descendant of the celebrated Java, where he was Assistant Secretary to Sir Stamford essayist, and died at the early age of twenty-two in Rafllos, the Governor at that time.