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 And a case is filed on this by politician PC Grorge and still the case is going.
+There is a mention about Para Kurup by Edgar Thurston in caste and tribes of southern India that instructors of kalari(old gymnasiums)for Nair youths was called Para Kurup.
+Also no other person was permitted to teach athletics(kalari)within the amsham(a small country)and he and some of his pupils,gave an exhibition of their quality.
+Besides bodily contortions and somersaults,practiced in a long low-roofed shed having a sandy floor,there is play with the following instruments-watta;Cheruvadi,a short stick; and a stick like a quarter-staff called a
+sariravadi, or stick the length of one's body. The watta
+is held in the right hand as a dagger ; it is used to stab
+or strike and, in some ingenious way, turn over an oppo-
+nent. The total length of the watta is two feet, and of
+the cheruvadi about three feet. The latter is squared
+at the ends, and is but a short staff. It is held in the
+right hand a few inches from the end, and is used for
+striking and guarding only. The sariravadi is held at
+or near one end by one or by both hands. The distance
+between the hands is altered constantly, and so is the
+end of the stick, which is grasped now by one, now by
+another end by either hand, as occasion may require ;
+sometimes it is grasped in the middle. The performance
+with these simple things was astonishing. I should say
+the watta and the cheruvadi represented swords, or
+rather that they were used for initiation or practice in
+swordmanship, when the Nayars were the military
+element in Malabar. The opponents, who faced each
+other with the sariravadi or quarter-staff, stood thirty
+feet apart, and, as if under the same stimulus, each
+kicked one leg high in the air, gave several lively
+bounds in the air, held their staff horizontally in front
+with out-stretched arms, came down slowly on the
+haunches, placed the staff on the ground, bent over,
+and touched it with the forehead. With a sudden
+bound they were again on their feet, and, after some
+preliminary pirouetting, went for each other tooth and
+nail. The sword play, which one sees during festive
+ceremonies, such as a marriage or the like, is done by
+the hereditary retainers, who fight imaginary foes, and
+destroy and vanquish opponents with much contortion
+of body, and always indulge in much of this preliminary
+overture to their performance.
+And his women folk had privileges they only being the midwives who could attend on the Nayar and Namboodiri women of the amsham.
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