| Also known as | Sanatan Shastar Vidiya |
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| Focus | Swordsmanship |
| Country of origin | India |
| Famous practitioners | Nidar Singh Nihang (real name Surjit Singh) |
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Shastar Vidya (Punjabi: ਸ਼ਸਤਰ-ਵਿੱਦਿਆ, romanized: shastarvidiā, meaning "science of weapons" or "art of weapons"[1][2]), also known as Sanatan Shastar Vidya (Punjabi: ਸਨਾਤਨ ਸ਼ਸਤਰ ਵਿੱਦਿਆ), is a Sikh martial art form dating back to the 17th century.[note 1][1][3][4][5][6]
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But his real interest lay in studying shastar vidya ("the art of weapons"–a 17th-century Sikh martial art) from the master Rajratna Rajpriya Professor Manikrao.
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- ^ Mukherjee, Priyanka; Taan, Griesham (26 October 2021). "Sanatan Shastar Vidya: The Ancient Indian Battlefield Art". BBC Reel.
- ^ Singh, Kamalroop (2014). "38. Sikh Martial Art (Gatkā)". In Singh, Pashaura; Fenech, Louis E. (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press. pp. 459–470. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199699308.013.022.
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