Editing Chess in early literature (section)

==India==
c. 500 AD – Subandhu's '''''[[Vasavadatta]]'''''
:''The time of the rains played its game with frogs for chessmen which yellow and green in color, as if mottled by lac, leapt up on the black field squares.''

c. 625 – [[Banabhatta]]'s '''''[[Harsha Charitha]]'''''
:''Under this monarch, only the bees quarreled to collect the dew;  the only feet cut off were those of measurements, and only from [[Ashtapada|Ashtâpada]] one could learn how to draw up a [[Chaturanga]], there were no cutting off the four limbs of condemned criminals...''

c. 1030 – [[Al-Biruni]]'s '''''India''''' describes the game of [[chaturaji]].

1148 – Kalhana's '''''Rajatarangini''''' (translated by MA Stein, 1900)
:''The King, though he had taken two kings (Lothana and Vigraharaja) was helpless and perplexed about the attack on the remaining one, just as a player of chess (who has taken two Kings and is perplexed about taking a third).''
:(Note: This refers to the game of chaturaji.)