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Malla-yuddha, the Glossary

Malla-yuddha (Sanskrit: मल्लयुद्ध) is the traditional form of combat-wrestling originating in the Indian subcontinent.^[1]

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Akhara

Akhara or Akhada (Sanskrit: अखाड़ा, romanised: Akhāḍā) is an Indian word for a place of practice with facilities for boarding, lodging and training, both in the context of Indian martial artists or a sampradaya monastery for religious renunciates in Guru–shishya tradition. Malla-yuddha and Akhara are Indian martial arts.

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Asana

An āsana (Sanskrit: आसन) is a body posture, originally and still a general term for a sitting meditation pose,Verse 46, chapter II, "Patanjali Yoga sutras" by Swami Prabhavananda, published by the Sri Ramakrishna Math p. 111 and later extended in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, to any type of position, adding reclining, standing, inverted, twisting, and balancing poses.

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Asura

Asuras are a class of beings in Indian religions.

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Badang

Badang was a legendary Southeast Asian strongman from the Malay world.

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Balarama

Balarama (बलराम) is a Hindu god, and the elder brother of Krishna.

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Bhatkal

Bhatkal is a coastal town in the Uttara Kannada District of the Indian state of Karnataka.

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Bhima

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, Bhima (भीम) is the second among the five Pandavas.

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Cambodia

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Mainland Southeast Asia.

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Chalukya dynasty

The Chalukya dynasty was a Classical Indian dynasty that ruled large parts of southern and central India between the 6th and the 12th centuries.

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Deva Raya II

Deva Raya II (r. 10 February 1423–May 1446 CE) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire.

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Domingo Paes

Domingo Paes (sometimes spelt Pais) was a traveller from Portuguese India, who visited the Vijayanagara Empire, located on the southern portion of the Deccan Plateau in around 1520.

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Donn F. Draeger

Donald Frederick "Donn" Draeger (April 15, 1922 – October 20, 1982) was an American practitioner and teacher of martial arts.

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Folk wrestling

A folk wrestling style is any traditional style of wrestling, which may or may not be codified as a modern sport.

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Gada (mace)

The gada (Sanskrit: गदा gadā, Kannada: ಗದೆ, Telugu: గద, Tamil: கதை, Malay: gedak, Old Tagalog: batuta) is a mallet or blunt mace from the Indian subcontinent.

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Garudasana

Garudasana (गरुडासन; IAST: Garuḍāsana) or Eagle Pose is a standing balancing asana in modern yoga as exercise.

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Gatta gusthi

Gatta gusthi is a form of submission wrestling practiced in Kerala, India. Malla-yuddha and Gatta gusthi are wrestling in India.

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Ghee

Ghee is a type of clarified butter, originating from India.

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Gujarat

Gujarat is a state along the western coast of India.

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Guru

Guru (गुरु; IAST: guru; Pali: garu) is a Sanskrit term for a "mentor, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field.

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Hanuman

Hanuman (हनुमान्), also known as Maruti, Bajrangabali, and Anjaneya, is a deity in Hinduism, revered as a divine vanara, and a devoted companion of the deity Rama.

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Hatha yoga

Hatha yoga (IAST: Haṭha-yoga) is a branch of yoga that uses physical techniques to try to preserve and channel vital force or energy.

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Hindi

Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.

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Inbuan wrestling

Inbuan is a form of wrestling native to the people of Mizoram in India. Malla-yuddha and Inbuan wrestling are Indian martial arts.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Jarasandha

Jarasandha is a king featured in the Hindu literature.

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Java

Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

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Jāti

Jāti is the term traditionally used to describe a cohesive group of people in the Indian subcontinent, like a tribe, community, clan, sub-clan, or a religious sect.

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Jeannine Auboyer

Jeannine Auboyer (1912—1990) was a French Indologist and art historian specialising in the classical arts of South and Southeast Asia.

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Jobbarer Boli Khela

Boli Khela or Bali Khela (বলীখেলা) is a traditional form of wrestling in Bangladesh, particularly popular in the Chittagong area considered as a national game of the district. Malla-yuddha and Jobbarer Boli Khela are Bangladeshi martial arts and sports originating in South Asia.

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Joseph Alter

Joseph S. Alter is an American medical anthropologist known for his research into the modern practice of yoga as exercise, his 2004 book Yoga in Modern India, and the physical and medical culture of South Asia.

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Kamsa

Kamsa (कंस) was the tyrant ruler of the Vrishni kingdom, with its capital at Mathura.

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Kanjira

The kanjira, khanjira, khanjiri or ganjira, a South Indian frame drum, is an instrument of the tambourine family.

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Karnataka

Karnataka (ISO), also known colloquially as Karunāḍu, is a state in the southwestern region of India.

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Kaupinam

The kaupinam, koavanam, kaupina, langot, or lungooty is a loincloth worn by men in the Indian subcontinent as underclothing.

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Khmer traditional wrestling

Khmer traditional wrestling (បោកចំបាប់ - Baok Cham Bab) is a folk wrestling style from Cambodia.

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Krishna

Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.

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Krishnadevaraya

Krishnadevaraya (17 January 1471 — 17 October 1529) was an emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire reigning from 1509 to 1529.

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Kshatriya

Kshatriya (from Sanskrit, "rule, authority"; also called Rajanya) is one of the four varnas (social orders) of Hindu society and is associated with the warrior aristocracy.

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Kukkutasana

Kukkutasana (कुक्कुटासन; IAST: Kukkuṭāsana), Cockerel Pose, or Rooster Posture is an arm-balancing asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise, derived from the seated Padmasana, lotus position.

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Kurmasana

Kurmasana (कूर्मासन; IAST: kūrmāsana), Tortoise Pose, or Turtle Pose is a sitting forward bending asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise.

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Lanka

Lanka is the name given in Hindu epics to the island fortress capital of the legendary asura king Ravana in the epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

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Mahabharata

The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.

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Malakhra

Malakhro (ملاکڙو) is an ancient Sindhi form of wrestling in Sindh, which dates back 5000 years. Malla-yuddha and Malakhra are wrestling in Pakistan.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Malla (tribe)

Malla (Prakrit: 𑀫𑀮𑁆𑀮𑀈; Malla; मल्ल) was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of north-eastern Indian subcontinent whose existence is attested during the Iron Age.

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Malla dynasty (Nepal)

The Malla dynasty (मल्ल वंश:;Malla vanśa) also known as the Malla confederacy, was the ruling dynasty of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal from 1201 to 1779.

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Malla Kingdom

Malla Kingdom was situated in the Gangatic plain between the Kosala and Videha.

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Mallabhum kingdom

Mallabhum (The Country originally known as Mallabhoom or Mallabani মল্লভূম or Bishnupur kingdom) was the kingdom ruled by the Malla kings of Bishnupur, primarily in the present Bankura district in Indian state of West Bengal.

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Mallakhamba

Mallakhamba, or mallakhamb is a traditional sport, originating from the Indian subcontinent, in which a group of gymnasts perform aerial yoga and gymnastic postures using wrestling grips in concert with a stationary vertical pole. Malla-yuddha and mallakhamba are wrestling in India.

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Manusmriti

The Manusmṛti (मनुस्मृति), also known as the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra or the Laws of Manu, is one of the many legal texts and constitutions among the many of Hinduism.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Mukna

Mukna is a form of folk wrestling from the north-east Indian state of Manipur. Malla-yuddha and Mukna are Indian martial arts.

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Musti-yuddha

Musti-Yuddha (Sanskrit: मुष्टि युद्ध) is a traditional combat sport originating from the Indian subcontinent. Malla-yuddha and Musti-yuddha are Bangladeshi martial arts, Indian martial arts, Pakistani martial arts and sports originating in South Asia.

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Naban

Naban (နပန်း) is a traditional form of grappling from Myanmar.

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Narasimhavarman I

Narasimhavarman I was a Pallava emperor who reigned from 630 CE to 668 CE.

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Navaratri

Navaratri is an annual Hindu festival observed in honor of the goddess Durga, an aspect of Adi Parashakti, the supreme goddess.

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Norman Sjoman

Norman E. Sjoman (born July 6, 1944, Mission City) is known as author of the 1996 book The Yoga Tradition of the Mysore Palace, which contains an English translation of the yoga section of Sritattvanidhi, a 19th-century treatise by the Maharaja of Mysore, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (b. 1794 - d. 1868).

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North India

North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.

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Pehlwani

Pehlwani, also known as Kushti, is a form of wrestling contested in the Indian subcontinent. Malla-yuddha and Pehlwani are Indian martial arts, sports originating in South Asia, wrestling in India and wrestling in Pakistan.

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Puranas

Puranas (पुराण||ancient, old (1995 Edition), Article on Puranas,, page 915) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly about legends and other traditional lore.

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Ramayana

The Ramayana (translit-std), also known as Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata.

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Ravana

Ravana was an ancient mythological king of the island of Lanka, and the chief antagonist in the Hindu epic Ramayana.

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Robert W. Smith (writer)

Robert William Smith (December 27, 1926 – July 1, 2011) was an American martial artist and writer, most noted for his prodigious output of books and articles about the Asian martial arts and their masters.

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Sanskrit

Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Sanskrit compound

Sanskrit inherits from its parent, the Proto-Indo-European language, the capability of forming compound nouns, also widely seen in kindred languages, especially German, Greek, and also English.

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Shirshasana

Shirshasana (Sanskrit: शीर्षासन, IAST: śīrṣāsana) Salamba Shirshasana, or Yoga Headstand is an inverted asana in modern yoga as exercise; it was described as both an asana and a mudra in classical hatha yoga, under different names.

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Simhasana

Simhasana (सिंहासन; IAST: Siṁhāsana) or Lion Pose is an asana in hatha yoga and modern yoga as exercise.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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South India

South India, also known as Southern India or Peninsular India, is the southern part of the Deccan Peninsula in India encompassing the states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Telangana as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, occupying 19.31% of India's area and 20% of India's population.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Sun Salutation

Sun Salutation, also called Surya Namaskar or Salute to the Sun, is a practice in yoga as exercise incorporating a flow sequence of some twelve linked asanas.

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Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu (TN) is the southernmost state of India.

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The Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh ('North Province') is a state in northern India.

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Vajra-mushti

Vajra-musti (Sanskrit:वज्रमुष्टि, "thunder fist" or "diamond fist") refers to a "fist-load, knuckleduster-like" weapon and also a form of Indian wrestling in which the weapon is employed. Malla-yuddha and Vajra-mushti are Indian martial arts and wrestling in India.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malla-yuddha

Also known as Malla Purana, Mallayuddha, Malyutham, Niyuddha-kride, Vajra Mukti.

, Manusmriti, Mughal Empire, Mukna, Musti-yuddha, Naban, Narasimhavarman I, Navaratri, Norman Sjoman, North India, Pehlwani, Puranas, Ramayana, Ravana, Robert W. Smith (writer), Sanskrit, Sanskrit compound, Shirshasana, Simhasana, Singapore, South India, Southeast Asia, Sun Salutation, Tamil Nadu, The Buddha, Uttar Pradesh, Vajra-mushti, Vali (Ramayana), Vanara, Varma kalai, Vijayanagara Empire, Wrestling.

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See also

Bangladeshi martial arts

Indian martial arts

Pakistani martial arts

Sports originating in South Asia

Wrestling in India

Wrestling in Pakistan

References