The change of an Indian weapon

[B.I]

hi jens,
robert only showed a part of the whole sculpture. attached is the complete piece, with some other similarly armed figures. sorry for the poor quality, its night and i have to photograph indoors. as you say, its a very interesting piece of iconography that leads to many more questions.

[Jens Nordlunde]

Thanks for the answers. What surprises me is, that the kukri appears in Nepal relatively late, but must have disappeared from SE India centuries before, or we would have seen weapon of this type from the area. I don’t know for how long time they have been using the adya katti on the west coast, so this is another thing to dig into, although I have a feeling that it may have been used there for a long time.

The pictures BI is showing are very interesting, although I could have hoped for a better quality – but better this quality than no pictures at all.
It is clear to see on the pictures, that the pommels, and the beginning of the blades on the knives shown are like on an adya katti, and not like on a kukri, but the rest of the blade looks very much like the blade of a kukri.