{"id":7755,"date":"2009-05-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/27\/looking-for-the-original-hindu-version-of-snakes-and-ladders-moksha-patamu\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T12:00:00","slug":"looking-for-the-original-hindu-version-of-snakes-and-ladders-moksha-patamu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/05\/27\/looking-for-the-original-hindu-version-of-snakes-and-ladders-moksha-patamu\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for the Original Hindu Version of Snakes and Ladders, Moksha-Patamu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\">HPI<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">KAUAI, HAWAII, May 27, 2009: Hinduism Today is researching the Hindu game of Moksha Patamu, which came to the West as &#8220;Snakes and Ladders.&#8221; It was a game to teach children moral values (faith, reliability, generosity, etc., each of which provided a &#8220;ladder&#8221; to lift the player closer to the game&#8217;s goal, moksha or liberation from rebirth) and the dangers of wrong attitudes and actions (lying, debt, rage, etc., each of which slid the player down a &#8220;snake&#8221; to an earlier square.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, we are not finding a clear Hindu version with the original meanings of each square. If you know where we can find such a version, please e-mail the managing editor, Arumugaswami, at ar@hindu.org.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, we&#8217;ll let everyone know through HPI where to get a copy, and may update the version with new art and graphics.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, May 27, 2009: Hinduism Today is researching the Hindu game of Moksha Patamu, which came to the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}