weapon art) usually refers specifically to armed disciplines. A later term, yuddha kalā, comes from the words yuddha meaning fight or combat and kalā meaning art or skill. The Vishnu Purana text describes dhanuveda as one of the traditional eighteen branches of “applied knowledge” or upaveda, along with shastrashastra or military science. Dhanurveda derives from the words for bow ( dhanushya) and knowledge ( veda), the “science of archery” in Puranic literature, later applied to martial arts in general. archery, armed combat), by Classical times they were used generically for all fighting systems.Īmong the most common terms today, śastra-vidyā, is a compound of the words śastra (weapon) and vidyā (knowledge).
While they may seem to imply specific disciplines (e.g. A variety of terms are used for the English phrases “Indian martial arts”, usually deriving from Dravidian sources. Indian martial arts refers to the fighting systems of the Indian subcontinent. Fighting systems of the Indian subcontinent
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