{"id":16331,"date":"2023-10-26T10:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T05:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16331"},"modified":"2025-04-04T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:03:09","slug":"vajra-mushti-kalaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/vajra-mushti-kalaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Vajra Mushti Kalaga"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Vajra Mushti Kalaga<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a unique\u00a0Indian martial art that incorporates various techniques of hand-to-hand combat like grappling, wrestling and striking techniques.<\/li>\n<li>Vajra Mushti, which literally means\u00a0Thunderbolt Fist, is characterised by the utilization of a knuckleduster, a small metal weapon.<\/li>\n<li>The knuckleduster, also known as Vajra Mushti, usually made of animal horns, is worn on the knuckles of the fighter.<\/li>\n<li>The main objective of this Indian martial art form is to\u00a0neutralize the opponent and counter his weapon.<\/li>\n<li>It is a\u00a0form of wrestling different from the conventional grappling and entails two jettys taking a swipe at each other\u2019s head with a knuckleduster.<\/li>\n<li>Whosoever draws the blood from the opponent\u2019s head first is declared the winner.<\/li>\n<li>This form of wrestling was popular\u00a0during the period of the Vijayanagar rulers who reigned between the 14th and the 17th centuries<\/li>\n<li>The fight is real and the jetty\u2019s make all efforts to draw blood from the opponent\u2019s head and a referee intervenes on noticing the first drop.<\/li>\n<li>Medieval travellers from Portuguese noticed this form of wrestling during the Navaratri celebrations in\u00a0Vijayanagar empire and have left detailed accounts of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are martial arts?<\/h3>\n<p>These are a diverse set of practices and traditions that encompass various combat and self-defense techniques. They have been developed and refined over centuries in different cultures around the world. Martial arts include a wide range of fighting styles, philosophies, and training methods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/a-martial-art-form-in-terminal-decline\/article67454730.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A martial art form in terminal decline<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vajra mushti kalaga is a unique Indian martial art that incorporates various techniques of hand-to-hand combat like grappling, wrestling and striking techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16331","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}