Importance of Game & Sports in Earlier Society for Development of Self- Confidence and Discipline

Abstract: A game, competition, or activity requiring physical effort and skill that is played according to rules for enjoyment or performed as a job like as depened someone who enjoy sport. Society's attitude towards sports is different. It is observed that the element of sports or competition comes first as education and entertainment rather than sports. In fact, we hear or read that even in the period of Ramayana and Mahabharata, there were competitions and even then the sport was of great importance. The study we are looking at is a valuable one, because behind old physical education there are special traditions of a noble country. This physical education is endowed with academic, social, scientific and philosophical foundation or meeting by the efforts and long experience of the scholars in different countries. For the overall development of an individual or athlete, for physical development, for the self-development of an individual or for the benefit of his caste and nation, the efforts made by physical education are invaluable for the disciplined building of the nation. Since time immemorial, human beings have used physical education i.e. sports to make their lives successful. There is evidence that in earlier times humans acquired the art of hunting for subsistence, the strength required for self-defense and other important physical activities through sports and physical education. In the past, Raja Maharaja used to organize various competitions to find the army needed for the protection and welfare of his nation From it, he used to organize games and competitions such as sword fighting, dandapatta, javelin throwing, sling shooting, weapon fighting, shooting, wrestling, running etc. Therefore, the nation was protected through sports and physical education.