Adding on, the game of Snakes and Ladders was previously known as Vaikuntapaali. "Vaikuntapaali" – which was originally a Hindu game. It has been speculated that this game was already being played in India as early as the 2 nd century AD. Others have credited the invention of the game to Dnyaneshwar (known also as Dnyandev), a Marathi saint who lived during the 13 th century AD. This game is also known by names like Gyan Chaupar (meaning 'Game of Knowledge), Mokshapat, and Moksha Patamu. The game now known as Ludo – was then called Pachisi (/pəˈtʃiːzi/). The board was made out of cloth or jute. A depiction of Pachisi is found in the caves of Ajanta Cavesin Maharashtra, showing that the game was quite popular in the Medieval Era. Cross and circle games such as Chaupar and Pachisi may be very old games, but so far their history has not been established prior to the 16th century. Chaupar was a popular gambling game at the court of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great (1556–1605). The emperor himself was a fan of the game and was known to play on a courtyard of his palace using slaves as playing pieces. Karuna Sharma of Georgia State University, in her research paper –"A visit to the mughal harem: Lives of Royal Women" noted the political side of these board games played at the court. The game of seven stones is mentioned in the Bhāgvata Purāna, a text written in 1000 AD at the latest. Several variations of tag, such as kho kho, kabaddi, atya patya, and langdi, are believed to be hundreds or thousands of years old, with certain aspects of kho-kho and kabaddi possibly being mentioned in the Mahabharata (at or before 300 AD), and atya-patya being mentioned in the Naṟṟiṇai (at or before 300 AD). East Asia The extinct Chinese board game liubo was invented no later than the middle of the 1st millennium BCE, and was popular during the Warring States period (476 BCE – 221 BCE) and the Han dynasty (202 BCE – 220 CE). Although the game's rules have been lost, it was apparently a race game not unlike Senet in that playing pieces were moved about a board using sticks thrown to determine movement. Go, also known as Weiqi, Igo, or Baduk (in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, respectively), is first mentioned in the historical annal Zuo Zhuan