Kalaripayattu
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Kalaripayattu, also known simply as Kalari, is an Indian martial art that originated in modern-day Kerala during the 11th–12th centuries CE.
Kalari Pattu
Kottackkal Kanaran Gurukkal (1850–1941), also known as the "Dronacharya of Kalaripayattu"
Kalaripayattu demonstration
Kalaripayattu training stances
Dravidian peoples
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The Dravidian peoples, Dravidian-speakers or Dravidians, are a collection of ethnolinguistic groups native to South Asia who speak Dravidian languages. There are around 250 million native speakers of
Kalaripayattu
…to another legend, Ayyappa, a war deity from Kerala, learned Kalaripayattu in the Cheerappanchira Kalari in Muhamma. According to Philip Zarrilli, the Dravidian combat techniques of the Sangam period (600 BCE – 300 CE) and Sanskritic Dhanur Vedic traditions were the earliest precursors to Kalaripayattu. Each…
Dravidian men performing the Kerala Dravidian native martial art, Kalaripayattu.
The Dancing Girl, a prehistoric bronze sculpture made in approximately 2500 BCE in the Indus Valley Civilisation city of Mohenjo-daro.
The Pashupati seal from the Indus Valley Civilization
Sage Agastya, father of Tamil literature