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A comment on Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art. Parent comment

Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by ummonk on Thursday July 08, 2021 @03:31AM (#27769218)
Banning martial arts was a common practice. An equally common practice has been claiming your martial art was banned and suppressed in the past, to give it legitimacy and an aura of mystery. With any given martial art, it's hard to determine whether it was actually banned or not.
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Re:Sri Lanka’s ancient, almost lost martial art by satao on Thursday July 08, 2021 @09:40AM (#27771807)
> An equally common practice has been claiming your martial art was banned and suppressed in the past, to give it legitimacy and an aura of mystery

Do you have any source for this claim?

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