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Old 18th March 2014, 10:21 PM   #124
David
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Originally Posted by fernando
C'mon David
Let me put up some fantasy. Artists had their freedom ... more often towards exagerating than minimizing things. Just trying to justify myself
Absolutely Nando, fantasize away…this is certainly a good thread for fantasy.
…and i agree, a lion-headed pommel no more makes a sword a kasthana as a wavy blade makes a dagger a keris though i wouldn't count out that this sword may have been of a form that had some influence on the development of the kasthana as we know it.
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