The name chaturanga means "having four limbs" in Sanskrit, and it refers to the four-level division of the ancient Indian army.
The history of the game chess begins in India with a game known as chaturanga.
As in modern chess, the goal of chaturanga was to protect your king while removing the other player's pieces from the board.
Most fitness experts will admit to you that the most difficult push up of all is the yoga one, known by yoga practitioners as the dreaded Chaturanga Dandasana, which stands for "four limbs staff."
It is believed that various versions of chaturanga spread across the world and developed into both Chinese chess (which uses pieces more like checkers) and the European version that is so popular today.