Original sentence: An Indian origin for playing cards has been suggested by the resemblance of symbols on some early European decks (traditional Sicilian cards, for example) to the ring, sword, cup, and baton classically depicted in the four hands of Indian statues.Ancient Chinese "money cards" have four "suits": coins (or cash), strings of coins (which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings), myriads of strings, and tens of myriads.However, it may be that the first deck of cards ever printed was a Chinese domino deck, in whose cards we can see all the 21 combinations of a pair of dice.In Kuei-t'ien-lu, a Chinese text redacted in the 11th century, we find that dominoes cards were printed during the T’ang dynasty, contemporary to the first books.It is almost certain that playing cards began in China after the invention of paper.The Chinese word pái (牌) is used to describe both paper cards and gaming tiles.The designs on modern Mahjong tiles likely evolved from those earliest playing cards.These were represented by ideograms, with numerals of 2–9 in the first three suits and numerals 1–9 in the "tens of myriads".This is an area that still needs research.Wilkinson suggests in The Chinese origin of playing cards that the first cards may have been actual paper currency which were both the tools of gaming and the stakes being played for
Edited sentence: China is also mentioned as a probable origin as playing cards were known in China by the year 1120 AD.Many theories exist regarding the place of origin of playing cards.Other writers have regarded Egypt as their source, noting the probable Hieroglyphic figures.The Moors, who introduced the playing cards into Spain, are said to have obtained them from the Gypsies.The locality in the East favoured by some historians is India, from where the cards are supposed to have made their way into Europe by means of the Gypsies, who carried the cards with them for the purposes of divination and fortune telling