• K. Sherly
• Dr.K.S.SOUMYA,

Travancore is the home to many age old traditions art and culture. Kalaripayattu and Varmakalai are the arts of warfare in South Tamilnadu and South Kerala. These art forms are commonly used by the Nadars of the country as an art of Self-defense as well as art of recreation and above all it has a lot medicianal. Varmakalai was mainly projected as a self defense and sports system. Varmam indicates the life force that flows like a stream from one point to another in its own path where the body mind and the soul interospect and communicates.

: Kalaripayattu, education, Kanyakumari District, Martial Art, Health Tourism, Travancore

"KALARIPAYATTU AND THE ART OF VARMAM IN TRAVANCORE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.123-125, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906F24.pdf

"KALARIPAYATTU AND THE ART OF VARMAM IN TRAVANCORE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp123-125, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906F24.pdf