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    • Akhara or Akhada (Hindi: अखाड़ा, romanised: Akhāṛā) is an Indian word for a place of practice with facilities for boarding, lodging and training, both in the context of Indian martial artists or a sampradaya monastery for religious renunciates in Guru–shishya tradition. For example, in the context of the Dashanami Sampradaya sect, the word denotes … See more

    Etymology

    The term akhara, is a gender-egalitarian term, which means the circle or more precisely the spiritual core, … See more

    History

    Jadunath Sarkar documented the founding date of various akharas based on a 19the century manuscript provided to him by the Nirvani Akhara of Dashanami Sampradaya.
    • Shavite martial akharas: Dashanami Sampradaya has … See more

    Akharas within Guru–Shishya traditional Sampradaya-Paramparas

    Sampradaya is a particular system of belief and within it a particular guru's lineage is called parampara. There are 3 distinct belief-system Sampradayas (Vaishnava, Shaivite and Dashanami sampradaya), each of whi… See more

    Two types of Akhara: Shashtradhari and Astradhari

    When the 8th-century philosopher Adi Shankaracharya founded the Dashanami Sampradaya, he divided the ascetics into two categories:
    • Shastradhari (Sanskrit: शास्त्रधारी, lit. scriptur… See more

    Astra Martial Arts Akhara

    Astra (Hindi: अस्त्र), the weapons or martial arts have a long tradition in India. The oldest recorded organized unarmed fighting art in South Asia is malla-yuddha or combat-wrestling, codified into four forms and pre-dat… See more

    Shashtra Monastic Akhara

    Shastra (Sanskrit and Hindi: शास्त्र) means treatise, scriptures or the school of thoughts based on those. There has been a long monastic tradition of obtaining "Shashtra Vidhya" (knowledge of Sashtras) in various … See more

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    Etymology
    History
    Akharas within Guru–Shishya traditional Sampradaya-Paramparas
    Two types of Akhara: Shashtradhari and Astradhari
    Astra Martial Arts Akhara
    Shashtra Monastic Akhara
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