Excerpt from Asiatic Papers Read Before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
The Game of ball-bat (chowgan-gui) among the Ancient Persians, as described in the Epic of Firdousi (journal, B. B. R. A. S., XVIII, pp. 39-46)
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