page_title: Chaupar
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Chaupar / History
caption_attribution_description: Shiva and Parvati Playing Chaupar: Page from a dispersed Rasamanjari (Essence of the Experience of Delight).Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper. India (Basohli, Jammu)
context_page_description: Chaupar, chopad or chaupad is a cross and circle board game very similar to pachisi, played in India. The board is made of wool or cloth, with wooden pawns and six cowry shells to be used to determine each player's move, although others distinguish chaupur from pachisi by the use of three four-sided long dice. Variations are played throughout India and some parts of Pakistan. It is similar in some ways to Pachisi, Parcheesi and Ludo. In most of the villages of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan, this game is played by old persons.
context_section_description: Gamesmen similar to chaupar with difference colour schemes along with dice have been identified from Iron age, Painted grey ware period from Mathura Chaupar originated in India from pachisi.
   Chopat is claimed to be a variation of the game of dice played in the epic poem Mahabharata between Yudhishthira and Duryodhan.
caption: Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati playing chaupar, c. 1694–95
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