Snakes & Ladders

Good Morning Readers.

Today in my blog sharing with you the ingenuity liftoff story of snakes & ladders. It was also called

param Padam Indian games in values 

Copied by the Britishers changed to the English game titled to snakes and ladders

Another game that originated in India was copied again by Britishers & was retitled as a chess game by Britishers. 

Are you aware??? Original game of

 "snakes and ladders" was the brainchild of Saint Dnyaneshwar, the 13th-century Maharashtrian saint?

He created this game & named it moksha Batam or param. Padam was created to teach Hindu values to children. 

The ladders represented virtues and snake vices. In the original game, square 12 was faith, 51 was reliability, 57 was generosity, 76 was knowledge, and 78 was asceticism. These were the squares where the ladder was placed.

Square 41 was for disobedience, 44 for arrogance, 49 for vulgarity, 52 for theft, 58 for lying, 62 for drunkenness, 69 for debt, 84 for anger, 92 for greed, 95 for pride, 73 for murder, and 99 for lust. These were the squares where the snake was placed.

The Square 100 represented nirvana or moksha. The top of each ladder portrayed our Hindu gods or one of the various heavens (Kailasa, Vaikuntha, Brahma Loka) and so on.

As the game progressed various actions were supposed to take you up and down the board, we see in our real life.