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This is 1 athletics which has agelong gone retired of vogue but is held erstwhile a twelvemonth connected Vijayadashmi conducted by the Wadiyars of Mysuru.
It is the Vajra Mushti Kalaga that involves warring by jetties hitting each other’s heads with a knuckleduster. There are references to it successful the writings of medieval travelers from Portugal who had visited the tribunal of Vijayanagara emperors.
On Thursday, the Vajra Mushti Kalaga was conducted successful the beingness of Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar and was witnessed by a ample crowd.
The jetties oregon wrestlers are clean-shaven for the lawsuit and the combat is stopped the infinitesimal a combatant inflicts injuries connected his hostile and draws the archetypal blood, nevertheless tiny it whitethorn be. Though ceremonial, it is conducted successful each seriousness, but seldom prolonged and astir of the time, it lasts little than a minute.
