Perhaps my problem with this term "gobang bandung" was that the word "bandung" actually means "two things together" & also "a pair", & apparently can be understood as "a friend" or "a brother". In Javanese we have "bandhung", same word but a slightly different pronunciation, and that means the same as "bareng" = "together".
Those meanings cover B.I., Sundanese & Javanese, but the word occurs in other Malayo-Polynesian languages also.
So, if I'm looking at a single sharp pointy thing and it is being called by everybody, including old records and museums, by a name that seems to imply "two", where is the other one?
Then of course there is the city.
It would be nice to know what the people who used these gobangs actually called them back when they were popular.
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