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Old 6th July 2012, 07:33 PM   #4
Ibrahiim al Balooshi
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Originally Posted by Jens Nordlunde
Please excuse me for doing so Ibrahiim, but the reason was, that I did not want to start discussing something different in Norman's mail. Making his post taking quite another direction.
I think this discussion is most interesting - and new to me, so I thought I would keep it in another thread.
When it comes to the number of deities in India, you are a head of me :-), as I have not yet studied the religion much - a bit but not enough.
This is of course a very important and big part of it all, but I am still 'stuck' with the history, the weapons, miniatures and that 'lot'.
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Jens
Salaams Jens Nordlunde ~ No Im not ahead of you in that respect but that having blurted out the detail of 33 therefor I had to research like mad to confirm my findings... In this case I was completely wrong but I spent a few hours checking and double checking. Actually the superb example of hilt you show does appear to have engraved onto it all of the deities within the group of 33 Hindu gods we are talking of... This is a magnificent example.
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Ibrahiim al Balooshi.
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