Pandai Saras Luk 9

[rasdan]

Yes Gustav, the nearer a keris to our present time, the more intermingling features can be seen. I sometime feel that this type of keris are almost impossible to classify with some acceptable accuracy.

G'day Alan.

Pandai Saras, Pandai Mamat, Tok Chu etc are supposedly pandai keris that makes keris to a certain style. It is said that Pandai Saras came from Majapahit. The closest name of a Majapahit Empu to Pandai Saras that I had heard is Empu Ki Sarap. Some say we can attribute these names to certain time period, but I doubt it.

On a different note, I am most interested to a ricikan on the ganja of many pandai saras keris which we can also see on some later Balinese keris - some Bugis and Palembang keris also have this ricikan. I am not sure the name of the ricikan which I mark in the picture below (the Balinese keris is from your website).

Do you know the name of this ricikan and does this ricikan present in older tangguh say, prior to the 1800's? - if we associate tangguh with time.

Also, what are the characteristics of a Madura Sepuh keris present on the above keris?