Tamil people identify themselves with their language, Tamil and their rich culture and literature. Tamil people, are not closely related to people in the Middle East and Europe, except the Romani people. Some of them are Brahui people, Kannadigas, Malayalis, Telugu people and Tuluvas. Other peoples are related to the Tamil people by language, culture, and ancestry. The remaining Tamil people live in many other places. Of that, there are about 63,000,000 in India about 3,600,000 live in Sri Lanka about 2,900,000 live in Malaysia and about 430,000 live in Singapore. The Tamil people number around 74 million in the world. Traditionally, they have been living in the southern parts of India, and the northeastern parts of Sri Lanka.
'''Nooku Varmam''' or '''Meitheenda Kalai'''Įxtant varma kalai manuals include the following.The Tamil people are an ethnic group from South Asia.Their number on each part of the body is as follows. In southern India and Sri Lanka, the number of ''varma'' is 108. In northern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, the human body is said to have 107 pressure points or ''marma''. The particular points can act as trigger points and giving pressure to these points in particular way are using to cure many diseases. Marma or Varmam are the vital points in human body which may be a joining place of two bones or two muscles or a muscle with a bone or a passage of ateries/veins/nerves. We get a detailed description from Siddha medicine where it is called as VARMAM and it is 108 in number. (2005) ''Kalarippayat: India's Ancient Martial Art'', Paladin Press who then recorded it and disseminated the skill among his students.Īccording to Ayurveda,there are 107 marma points in the human body. While disguised as an old man, Murugan passed the knowledge of ''varmam'' to the sage AgastyaLuijendijk, D.H. The Siddha medicine in medical system, otherwise known as ''siddha vaidyam'', is also attributed to Agastya.įolklore traces varma kalai to the god Shiva who is said to have taught it to his son Murugan. Medical treatment in the southern styles is identified with siddha,Zarrilli 1992 the traditional Dravidian system of medicine distinct from north Indian ayurveda. The preliminary empty handed techniques of varma ati are known as ] (hit/defend). Zarrilli refers to southern kalaripayattu as varma ati (the law of hitting), ''marma ati'' (hitting the vital spots) or ''varma kalai'' (art of varma). |title= Kalarippayat: India's Ancient Martial Art |year= 2005 |publisher= Paladin Press |isbn= 1-58160-480-7 One of the stages of training in southern kalarippayattu is ''marma'' (pressure points). Usually taught as an advanced aspect of unarmed Indian fighting systems, Stevens, B ''From Lee to Li'', HarperCollins 2009 ISBN 9780007347414 strikes are targeted at the nerves, veins, tendons, organs and bone joints. Its combat application is known as ''varma adi'' or ''marma adi'', meaning "pressure point striking". The healing application called ''vaidhiya murai'' is used to treat patients suffering from paralysis, nervous disorder, spondylitis and other conditions. It is a component of traditional massage, medicine, and Indian martial arts in which the body's pressure points (''varma'' or ''marma'') are manipulated to heal or cause harm. '''Varma kalai''' in Tamil language வர்மக்கலை ''varmakkalai'', in Malayalam language വർമക്കല ''varmakkala'', in Sinhalese language මාරු කල ''maru kala'', in Telugu language మర్మయుద్దకళ ''marma vidya kala'', in Sanskrit मर्म विद्य ''marma vidya'' is a Indian word meaning "art of vital points".