India
c. 500 AD - Subandhu's Vasavadatta
- The time of the rains played its game with frogs for chessmen which yellow and green in color, as if mottled by lac, leapt up on the black field squares.
c. 625 - Banabhatta's Harsha Charitha
- Under this king only bees quarrel in collecting dews, the only feet cut off are those in meter, only chess boards teach the positions of the chaturanga.
c. 1030 - Al-Biruni's India describes the game of chaturaji.
1148 - Kalhana's Rajatarangini (translated by MA Stein, 1900)
- The King, though he had taken two kings (Lothana and Vigraharaja) was helpless and perplexed about the attack on the remaining one, just as a player of chess (who has taken two Kings and is perplexed about taking a third).
- (Note: This refers to the game of chaturaji.)
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