The Padacandrikā is one of the four commentaries on the Daśakumāracarita published in the Nirnaya Sagar Press edition(s) of the latter — here the 1940 one:
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.494082/page/n3/mode/2up

Note that, on the "boy" side, as already mentioned by Paulinus a Sancto Bartholomaeo (Viaggio alle Indie orientali, umiliato alla santità di n. s. papa Pio Sesto, pontefice massimo, Roma: A. Fulgoni, 1796, p. 195 - cf. the French, German and English versions of the same), according to F. Fawcett, "Notes on some of the people of Malabar", Madras Government Museum Bulletin 3/1, 1900, p. 79:
 “Nambútiri boys play a game called pantukali with a football made of coir. On each side there is a hole, and the game consists in trying to put the ball in the hole of the opposite side.”
K. P. Padmanabha Menon, History of Kerala, Ernakulam: Government Press, t. 3, 1933, p. 122, confirms: 
"Boys generally have a game called Paṇṭukaḷi with a foot ball made of coir or pack thread. This game will be found described elsewhere."
The game is described in details by the same in the vol. 4 (1937, pp. 300-301, cf. p. 378 and 387 n° 26), under the name Thalapandu = mal. talama-p-pantu ̆ , played during the Onam festival (the description follows the one of A. R. Raja Raja Varma published in the vol. 5 of the  Malabar Quarterly Review, not seen). 

Le 11 avr. 2024 à 07:05, Nagaraj Paturi via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :

This link seems to be a Japanese one . Since you are in Japan now, you may  be able to access

https://bauddha.dhii.jp/INBUDS/adm.php?od=8&m=sch&uekey=%E7%A7%98%E6%88%AF%E8%A1%93%EF%BC%88Kanduka-tantra%EF%BC%89&ekey1=keywordsstr&lim=20&ekey=%E7%A7%98%E6%88%AF%E8%A1%93%EF%BC%88Kanduka-tantra%EF%BC%89

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 9:42 AM patrick mccartney via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:
Dear Friends,

This is in relation to Daṇḍin's Dasakumāracarita and the monthly ritual of kanduka-krīḍita that the princess, Kandukavatī, performed for Vindhyavāsinī during kṛttikā.

Raghavan (1960, 149) has briefly mentioned a:

'commentary Padacandrikā quotes a treatise called Kanduka-tantra on the art of playing with ball.' 

Raghavan, V., ed. 1960. Nṛttaratnavali of Jāya Senāpati. Madras: Government Oriental Manuscripts Library.

I would be most grateful for any information about how to locate and access these two texts.


Thank you.

All the best,

Patrick McCartney, PhD
Phoenix Fellow 2023–26, HIroshima University, Japan
ISRF Fellow 2022–23 - Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Research Associate - Nanzan University Anthropological Institute, Nagoya, Japan
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