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| | Andy's Playing Cards - Indian cards |
 | | The names of the two court cards are either in Farsi, the official language of the Mughals, or in Sankrit, anciently spoken by the Hindus, or in Hindi (modern language), as shown in the table on the right. |
 | | In play, the natural ordering of the pip card values (1 the lowest, 10 the highest) is followed by only half of the suits, while the cards of the other suits are given an opposite ranking (1 is the highest, 10 is the lowest). |
 | | Indian cards were used for trick games, two of which are known as Ekrang and Hamrang (see John McLeod's Games played with Ganjifa), the same type of pastime which the early European tarots were used for, now replaced by the regional patterns that sprung from them. |
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