Wrestling known as Malla Yuddha in ancient Hinduism could be a mock fight or a real one. There is a graphic account of the real kind in the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. The famous wrestling episodes in ancient Hinduism were the ones between Hanuman and the demons, Sri Krishna and Kamsa, Bhima and Duryodhana, Bhima and Keechaka, Bhima and Jarasandha etc. Sometimes when things get out of hand, the wrestlers use mace, boulders or trees or other heavy things to hit each other. This sort of fighting had its precedent in the bout between Indra and Vritra as recounted in Vedas, where a weapon like vajra was used. In a mock fight, however, no weapon was used. Here only the closed fists of the fighters served as the means of fighting. Reference to this form of wrestling goes as far back in India history as the date of Panini, the grammarian. In one of his aphorisms, he refers to the word mustau in the locative case, attending thereby to the rule of wrestling under which one wrestle was sup