{"id":25277,"date":"2025-01-21T01:28:02","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T19:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25277"},"modified":"2025-04-07T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:16:31","slug":"kalarippayattu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kalarippayattu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalarippayattu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kalaripayattu:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the oldest and <strong>most scientific martial art forms<\/strong> in the world, aimed at mind and body coordination.<\/li>\n<li>It originated and is widely practiced in Kerala. The term \u201cKalari\u201d in Malayalam refers to a <strong>traditional gymnasium<\/strong> where this martial art, <strong>known as Payattu,<\/strong> is taught.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>According to mythology, the warrior sage Parasurama is credited with establishing Kalarippayattu.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>four stages of Kalaripayattu are:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Maippayattu:<\/strong> It is the body conditioning phase where the person is <strong>schooled to prepare<\/strong> their <strong>body for a fight<\/strong>. Only after qualifying this stage can the practitioner proceed to the next phase of training.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kolthari:<\/strong> In this stage, a person is <strong>taught attack and self-defense<\/strong> with the help of wooden weapons such as short sticks, and long sticks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angathari:<\/strong> Once the person overcomes the fear of fighting with <strong>wooden weapons, sharp metal objects<\/strong> are introduced \u2014 in the third stage.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Verumkai:<\/strong> This stage includes <strong>research-based bare-hand fighting<\/strong>. Students are taught body anatomy so that they know what points they can hit and what they cannot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The main ethnic styles of Kalarippayattu found in the three regions of northern Kerala (Malabar) are: <strong>Vattenthirippu Style, Arappukkai Style and Pillathangi Style<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is believed that Kalarippayattu was introduced to <strong>China at the Shaolin Temple<\/strong> in the 5th century AD by Bodhidharma, who was originally from Thanjavore, a cultural center that was part of Kerala but is now in Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: Who is the father of Kalaripayattu?<\/h3>\n<p>Kalaripayattu, which is the most popular amongst many martial arts practiced in India, is believed to have been founded by Parasurama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/38th-national-games-tussle-over-kalaripayattus-removal-from-competition-list-9786314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalaripayattu is one of the oldest and most scientific martial art forms in the world, aimed at mind and body coordination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25277","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\/25277","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=25277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}