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Originally Posted by David
Perhaps i am laboring under a misunderstanding. I had thought that "buntut urang" referred to the tail end of the gonjo, so don't all keris have one?
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Reference to the old version of the Ensiklopedi Keris, page 55, buntut urang is a kind of buntut cecak (urang=shrimp), which buntut cecak agreeing as the rearest part after the gandok part of the ganja by seeing from the bottom (not side seeing).
So, maybe buntut cecak has sub-definiton : buntut cecak and buntut urang.
Buntut urang has bolder and flat at the tip (like shrimp tail), another pointed tip known as buntut cecak.