[A. G. Maisey]

This is an interesting post Pak Ganja.

Tell me, what do you understand from the name "karno tinandhing" ?

Karno is "ear", but what about tinandhing?

I don't understand the word, I have just asked four native speakers of Javanese, one from Solo, three from East Jawa, and none of them can give any sense to the word.

I've even had a look at several dictionaries. I cannot find it at all.

We 've got "nandhing", which I think is probably low dialect for "compare" but "ti" is not a regularised prefix, and "compare" doesn't make sense --- I think.

So tell me, what do you think "karno tinandhing" means?

Looking at this keris of Semar's, there are a couple of things that strike my eye:- the distance from final luk to point, the apparent nature of the pamor, the odd little projections above the kembang kacangs, the method of workmanship.

Then there is the mendak and the wrongko.

Where do you think this keris might be from?