Popular Sports and Pastimes in 12th Century Gujarat as Depicted in the Candappahacariya

References to sports and means of entertainment are found in abundance in ancient Jaina texts The royal households included a variety of sportsmen such as acrobats (nada) dancers (nattaga), wrestlers (malla), boxers (muttthiya), Jesters (velambiya), reciters (kahaga), storytellers (akkhayaga), ropedancers (jalla), jumpers (pavaga), rāsa singers (lāsaka), pole dancers (lamkha) etc References to these are found

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जोशी हरिभद्र की अप्रकाशित प्राकृत कृति 'चंदप्पहचरिय' (पाटण की ताड़पत्रीय प्रति, संवत् 1223) से सामग्री लेती हैं। राजा अजितसेन की उद्यानक्रीडा के प्रसंग में लकुटरास, रस्सी पर नृत्य, मल्लयुद्ध, बाँस के खम्भे का खेल, मुखौटाधारी विदूषकों का नृत्य, कथावाचक और ऐन्द्रजालिक वर्णित हैं; कुछ अंश अपभ्रंश में हैं। Joshi draws on the unpublished Prakrit Candappahacariya of Haribhadra, a Patan palm-leaf manuscript copied in Saṃvat 1223. King Ajitasena's garden outing frames descriptions of lakuṭa-rāsa, rope-dancing (jalla), wrestling, pole feats (laṃkha), masked vidūṣaka dance, storytellers and conjurors, some passages in Apabhraṃśa; the pole feat is compared with the Āvaśyaka-cūrṇi.

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