Varma kalai

Varma kalai (Tamil: varmakkalai, Malayalam: marmakkala, Sinhala: maru kalā, Telugu: marmavidyakaḷa, Sanskrit: marmavidya) is a Indian term meaning "art of vital points". It is a component of traditional massage, medicine, and martial arts in which the body's pressure points (varma or marma) are manipulated to heal or cause harm. The healing application called vaidhiya murai is used in ayurveda and siddha medicine (siddha vaidyam) to treat patients suffering from paralysis, nervous disorder, spondylitis and other conditions. Its combat application is known as varma adi or marma adi meaning "pressure-point striking", and can be done either empty-handed or with a blunt weapon such as a stick or staff. Usually taught as an advanced stage of Indian fighting systems, strikes are targeted at the nerves, veins, tendons, organs and bone joints.

History

Folklore traces varma kalai to the god Shiva who is said to have taught it to his son Murugan. While disguised as an old man, Murugan passed the knowledge of varmam to the sage Agastya who then recorded it and disseminated the skill among his students. Siddha medicine is also attributed to Agastya. The Sushruta Samhita (c. 4th century) identifies 107 vital points on the human body of which 64 were classified as being lethal if properly struck with a fist or stick.Sushruta's work formed the basis of the medical discipline ayurveda which was taught alongside various martial arts. With numerous other scattered references to marma in Vedic and epic sources, it is certain that South Asia's early fighters knew and practised attacking and defending vital points.

Marma

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Marma (film)

Marma (Kannada: ಮರ್ಮ) is a 2002 Kannada movie directed by Sunil Kumar Desai. The movie mainly deals with sensitive issues such as schizophrenia and hallucination. It is a story of a woman who suffers from a split personality and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

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The story begins with Sudha (Prema) and Anand (Anand) getting engaged. To celebrate, Anand decides to throw a party and promises Sudha he will pick her up. Anand doesn't pick her up and Sudha drives to his estate. She gets stuck in the rain and knocks on the door of a nearby house. There she discovers the body of a girl. Suddenly she senses that she is being attacked. In the struggle, she falls from the roof. While unconscious, she is admitted to a hospital. When she reaches her home, she describes what she experienced that night, but no one believes her. She never recovers from that traumatic experience. Later, she starts a fight with someone in her imagination and tries to kill that person. A psychiatrist fails to bring Sudha out of her mental state. Her fiancé also tries to bring her to a normal condition.

Marma (spider)

Marma is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders).

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Ati

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ATI

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Ćatić

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Ati people

The Ati are a Negrito ethnic group in the Visayas, the central portion of the Philippine archipelago. Their small numbers are principally concentrated in the islands of Boracay, Panay and Negros. They are genetically related to other Negrito ethnic groups in the Philippines such as the Aeta of Luzon, the Batak of Palawan, and the Mamanwa of Mindanao.

History

In the Philippines the Aetas or Aeta ancestors were the 'aboriginals' or the 'first' inhabitants of this Archipelago. They most probably arrived from Borneo 20-30,000 years ago, through what is thought to be an isthmus (remnants of which today comprise the island of Palawan) that in the prehistoric epoch connected the Philippine archipelago to Borneo via a land bridge. According to some oral traditions, they also predate the Bisaya, who now inhabit most of the Visayas.

Legends, such as those involving the Ten Bornean Datus and the Binirayan Festival, tell tales about how, at the beginning of the 12th century, the ancestors of the Bisaya escaped from Borneo from the persecution of Rajah Makatunaw. Led by Datu Puti and Datu Sumakwel and sailing with boats called balangays, they landed near a river called Suaragan, on the southwest coast of Panay, (the place then known as Aninipay), and bartered the land from an Ati headman named Polpolan and his son Marikudo for the price of a necklace and one golden salakot. The hills were left to the Atis while the plains and rivers to the Malays. This meeting is commemorated through the Ati-atihan festival. This legend, though, is challenged by some historians.