Fancy facing a knuckleduster in wrestling pit?
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Fancy facing a knuckleduster in wrestling pit?

The Hindu  

The ‘’vajra mushti kalaga’’ is a form of wrestling different from the conventional grappling and entails two jettys taking a swipe at each other’s head with a knuckleduster. Though this form of wrestling was popular during the period of the Vijayanagar rulers who reigned between the 14th and the 17th centuries, it has gone extinct and takes place only during Dasara. The fight is real and the jetty’s make all efforts to draw blood from the opponent’s head and a referee intervenes on noticing the first drop. Medieval travellers from Portuguese noticed this form of wrestling during the Navaratri celebrations in Vijayanagar empire and have left detailed accounts of it.

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