Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art

Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by cmrajan on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @09:11PM (#27767512)

I could see close parallels with ancient martial art Kalaripayattu [1] practiced in southern Indian state of Kerala. It's very popular and still being practiced there [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalaripayattu

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Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by throwmaway99 on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:23AM (#27768471)

I am not surprised. Sri Lanka shares a lot of culture and history with India. Afterall one of the origin stories of sri lanka is king Vijaya was banished from India and sailed to Sri Lanka where he met the locals then and established the kingdom that later became Sri Lanka.

When I am working abroad and miss home food and I can't find a Sri Lankan shop, I often substitute it with Kerala food, which I believe some of our main dishes are inspired from. Both Kerala food and Sri Lankan food makes heavy use of coconut milk in preparing their dishes.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by chana_masala on Thursday July 08, 2021 @05:21AM (#27769790)

What about Tamil food? There are lots of ethnic Tamil in Sri Lanka

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Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by chupchap on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @11:27PM (#27768195)

I agree. The kacha, kalari all look too similar to be a coincidence. Similar style is followed in TN as well.

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Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by chakkepolja on Thursday July 08, 2021 @12:00AM (#27768329)

weapons as well, such as Urumi seem to be common to both.

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