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Chakram

Chakram is a flat steel ring from five to twelve inches in diameter and from half an inch to an inch and a half wide, the outer edge is sharp. lt is usually plain but sometimes elaborately inlaid. It resembles the modern frisbee, and the ancient Greek sport item Discus. Several of different sizes were often carried on a pointed turban, the dastar ungaa or behind the back. The thrower stands squarely faceing his objective, takes the chakra between the thumb and first finger of the right hand, holding it low down on his left side. He then turns his body so as to bring the right shoulder as far forward as possible and throws underhand with the full swing of his body. Thrown with sufficient force and accuracy it can cut off a green bamboo three-quarters of an inch in diameter at a distance of thirty yards.