...prove that Chefs was in,vented by the Hindus, we may be fatisfied with the teftimony of the Ptrftans ; who, though as much, inclined as other nations to...appropriate the ingenious inventions of a foreign people, unanimoully agree, that the game was imported from the weft of India, together with the charming fables...

...prove that chefs was invented by the Hindus, we may be fatisfied with the teftimony of the Per/ians ; who, though as much inclined as other nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of a foreign people, unanimoufly agree, that the game was imported from the weft of India, together with the charming fables...

...prove that Chefs was invented by the Hindus, we may be fatisfied with the teftimony of the Perfians s who, though as much inclined as other nations to appropriate...inventions of a foreign people, unanimously agree, that the iifter kingdom, and the meffengers of game was imported from the weft of the houfe of commons com idled...

...entitled to the honor of the invention ; as an evidence of which he tells us, that the Persians assert that the game was imported from the West of India in the sixth century of the Christian era. With all due deference to Sir William, this proves nothing more than that the Persians...

...Hindoos, on the authority of the Persians, who unanimously agree that it was imported into their country from the west of India in the sixth century of our era ; and he traces the successive corruptions of the original Sanscrit term, through the Persians and...

...William Jones is of the same opinion. He says, '•' If evidence were required to prove this fact, wt; may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians,...nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of foreign people, unanimously agrçe that the game was imported from the west of India, in the sixth...

...Persians, who, though a* much inclined as other nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of . And tempts the sickled swain into the field, Sciz'd by the general joy, bis heart asra." The honorable Daines Harrington, in his " Historical Disquisition on the game of Chess,* asserts...

...inclines to the latter supposition. In the second volume of the • Asiatic Researches,' he says, ' We may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians...from the west of India in the sixth century of our ffira. It seems to have been immemorially known in Hindostan by the name of Chaturanga, ie, the four...

...inclines to the; latter supposition. In the second volume of the ' Asiatic Researches,' he says, ' We may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians...from the west of India in the sixth, century of our core. It seems to have been immemorially known in Hindostan by the name of Chaturanga, ie, the four...

...Jones inclines to the ! latter supposition. In the second volume of the 'Asiatic Researches,' he says, 'We may be satisfied with the testimony of the Persians : who, though as much inclined as j other nations to appropriate the ingenious inventions of a I foreign people, unanimously agree that...