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Wikipedia's article on varma kalai, the South Indian tradition of marma point practice, consulted 2026-08-11.
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Wikipedia's article on varma kalai, the South Indian tradition of marma point practice, the lower tier reflecting that it is a crowd sourced, not independently peer reviewed encyclopedia entry, reliable for standard identifying facts and less reliable for evaluating the tradition's own claimed therapeutic and martial effects, which would need a dedicated ethnographic or medical source. NotesWikipedia's article on varma kalai, the Tamil martial and healing point tradition, consulted 2026-08-11 at the URL Marma_adi, which the encyclopedia resolves to its Varma Kalai article. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; used here for its own account of the tradition's Shiva to Murugan to Agastya legendary attribution, reported here explicitly as the tradition's own folk account rather than as settled history, and for its statement that only the Agastya school is commonly practiced today.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marma_adi
Source Typereference
Claims Backed By This Source (13 claims)
This source backs 13 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.
- Practices, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
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