Thanks Marcokeris and Alam Shah,
Obviously I went through the books to fast last night when responding.
Shahrial, isn't Bhuta Nawasari a Raksasa prince or an incarnation of Shiva Bhairava?
As a collector of Visayan swords it's interesting to see the resemblence of the Leiden Keris hilt to the deity hilts of those swords?
Maybe those hilts are from the time when the Javanese Hindu influence was dominating Banjarmasin?
Michael
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