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    Angampora is an ancient indigenous martial art of Sri Lanka that combines combat techniques, self-defense, exercise, and meditation. It has six components including unarmed combat, armed combat, magic, dancing, herbal medicine, and astrology. Of these, illangampora focuses on combat using 32 traditional weapons. Angampora is practiced widely in western, southern, and Sabaragamuwa provinces by various clans and lineages, and is an important part of Sri Lanka's intangible cultural heritage.

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    Angampora is an ancient indigenous martial art of Sri Lanka that combines combat techniques, self-defense, exercise, and meditation. It has six components including unarmed combat, armed combat, magic, dancing, herbal medicine, and astrology. Of these, illangampora focuses on combat using 32 traditional weapons. Angampora is practiced widely in western, southern, and Sabaragamuwa provinces by various clans and lineages, and is an important part of Sri Lanka's intangible cultural heritage.

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    NIICH-SL/ Index no 2017-01Angampora

    1. Name of the Element

    Angam, also known as angampora, is an ancient indigenous form of martial art of Sri
    Lanka.

    1.1 Name of the elements, as used by community or group concerned;


    අංගම්; අංගම්ප ොර

    1.2. Short, maximally informative title (including indication of domain(s));

    Angampora, Sinhalese: අංගම්ප ොර, is an ancient indigenous form of martial art of Sri
    Lanka that combines combat techniques, self-defense, sport, exercise, and meditation.
    It is identified as representing an important element of the corpus of Intangible
    Cultural Heritage of Sri Lanka as it manifests the following four domains of ICH as
    specified in the 2003 UNESCO Convention.

    o Oral traditions and expressions, including language as a vehicle


    o Performing arts
    o Social practices, rituals and festive events
    o knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe;

    1.3. Community (ies) concerned;

    Angam is practiced by two main schools namely Sudaliya and Maruwalliya that are
    traced back into history as two rival clans. Apart from the two main schools, there are
    several smaller groups practicing the element. Among them, Kotte Clan, Ritigala
    Clan, Warnasuriya Clan, and Padiwita Clan are fairly well known. Additionally,
    there are few more groups who are called after the names of their families or villages.

    1.4. Physical location(s) of the elements;

    Angam is practiced widely in western, Southern and Sabaragamuwa provinces in Sri


    Lanka.

    1.5. Short description.

    Angam contains six different components, namely;

    1. අංගම්ප ොර (unarmed combat)


    2. ඉලංගම්ප ොර (armed combat)
    3. මායාඅංගම් (black magic & white magic)
    4. නැටුම්හාපෙරවාදන (dancing & drumming)
    5. පේහධම්මපේශියවවදයකර්මය (herbal medicine)
    6. ප‍යොතිෂ්‍යවිදයාව (astrology)

    Of the six components, Illangampora occupies a special position as it involves the use
    of arms for combat, and mastery in that art is considered to be essential to become a
    competent Angam practitioner. A student is required to complete two years of
    training in other aspects of angam, before starting to learn the art of illangam. Thirty-
    two types of weapons, known in the Sinhala language as Dethis-ayudha(
    “පදතිස්ආයුධ”)are used in Illangam. The 32 weapons are categorized as follows;

    1. වක්ආයුධ– Curved weapons

    2. වක්‍් රආයුධ– Circular weapons

    3. දික්ආයුධ– Long weapons

    4. පමොට්ටආයුධ- Blunt weapons

    5. කංචආයුධ –Kuncha

    2. Characteristics of the element

    2.1.Associated tangible elements;


    Getaberaya. Yak beraya, Daula, Thammettama, and Ranaberaya, and the 32 weapons.

    2.2.Associated intangible elements

    Short Sword Long Sword Heavy Mace

    Curved knife Belt Sword Short Mace

    Heavy Pole Iron Mace Bow & Arrow

    Spear Dagger Knuckle duster

    Shield Scimitar Horn Dagger

    2.3. Language(s), register(s), speech level(s) involved

    Sinhala

    2.4. Perceived origin

    Practitioners trace the origins of Angam to the legendary Sri Lankan king named
    Ravana who ruled the country about 6,000 years ago. Some stone carvings of the
    7th-8th centuries and wood carving of the 14th century depict fighting or wrestling
    scenes that may provide evidence of the prevalence of a form of martial art in the
    historical periods.

    3. Persons and institutions involved with the element


    3.1. Practitioners(s)/performer(s): name(s), age, gender, social status, and/ or
    professional category, etc.;

    1. Master - Vageesha Wikramavansha Bandara


    Vishawaja Winthera Yong Angam Fighter's and Cultural Association
    No 698 , Temple Road, Maharagama,
    Tel : 0714917552

    2. Master - Indralal Perera


    Veediya Bandara Angam Training Center.
    Janaraja Mawatha,
    Uggalbada, Kaluthara.
    Tel - 0773551335

    3. Master - Raja Vikrama Arachchi


    Sabaragamuea Lion cultural center
    Eth oya , Rathnapura,
    Tel - 0712706502

    4. Master - E.W. Yajeewa


    No 25/ 6, Bodhiya Road , EMbuldeniya
    Nugegoda.
    0712221243

    5. Master - Chamika Bandara.


    No 1566/3/7 - Sirimal watta,
    Kottawa , Pannipitiya
    0714446072

    3.2. Other participants (e.g., holders/custodians);

    3.3. Customary practices governing access to the element or to aspects of it;

    3.4. Modes of transmission;


    Transmission of Angam has been through generational teaching and learning.

    3.5. Concerned organizations (NGOs and others).

    4. State of the element: viability


    4.1. Threats to the enactment;

    4.2. Threats to the transmission;

    4.3. Availability of associated tangible elements and resources;

    4.4. Viability of associated tangible and intangible elements;

    4.5. Safeguarding measures in place

    5. Data gathering and inventorying


    5.1. Consent from and involvement of the community/group in data gathering and
    inventorying;

    5.2. Restrictions, if any, on use of inventoried data;

    5.3. Resource persons(s): name and status or affiliation;

    5.4. Data and place of data gathering; In Westewrn, Sourtherrn and Sabaragamuwa
    provinces in Sri Lanka January 2013

    5.5. Date of entering data into an inventory; January 2013

    5.6. The inventory entry complied by Uday Cabral,Suleka Pathmini Wimalasiri and
    Vijani Rodrego

    6. Reference to literature, discography, audiovisual materials, archives.

    Liyanage, Bandula (2011), Angampora jayagath maraliya, Godage, Colombo.

    http://puppetools.com/library/pdf/Puppetanatomy.pdf

    http://www.srilankatravelnotes.com/COLOMBO/PUPPETARTMUSEUM/PuppetArtMuseu
    m.html

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angampora

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