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India at Play
When we think of sports, games like cricket, football and tennis come
to mind. We are think of games such as kabaddi, gilli danda and
kith-kath, though they have been with us for centuries, and are played
enthusiastically in almost every village and city of India. What are
where do they come from, and what do they mean to us
Lets read on
In the history of humankind, sports has always played an
important role, both as a source of amusement and a means of
keeping the mind and body fit. In ancient India, as with many
ancient civilizations, it was not enough to gain knowledge - the
health and fitness of one's body was equally important. Long
before India had embraced cricket and football, games such as
kite-flying, kabaddi and kho-kho, to name a few, were played
both by kings and commoners. These games do not boast of
having sports stars like Sachin Tendulkar or MC Mary Kom, but
they are immensely popular even today. Interestingly, the earliest
forms of some of these games existed even before the Mahabharata
was written
Kho-kho is one such example. A game
of
great agility and
alertness, in ancient times it was played on raths or chariots, and
was known as 'rathera'
. In its modern version, a chaser from one
team tries to touch an opponent from the other team to get them
"out". The chaser may pass his or her task to a teammate, sitting
on the central line made on a rectangular field, by touching the
teammate's back and shouting 'kho". The team that takes the
shortest time to dismiss its rivals, wins.
Another game of touching and dismissing opponents is kabaddi,
Had to have originated from the Mahabharata incident of
Abhimanyu getting trapped in a cukoryahat created by his
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