Pihiya Kaetta - any ideas about age?

ingelred · 23rd June 2009, 07:35 PM

Hello and thank You all for Your comments.
Of course You are right, it is a Garuda hilt.
Seems as if I did not read Coomaraswamy's Medieval Sinhalese Art well enough.

Maskell, thank You for the link.
Actually this threat is one of the sources why I believe this knife to be related to the Piha Kaetta.
Here is another threat to this toppic depicting Pihas with Garuda hilts.

http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001998.html

Best regards, Helge

M ELEY · 24th June 2009, 07:39 AM

Very nice piece of rarer form. Looking over Maskell's thread, I was reminded of Sri Lanka's other figural hilted weapon, the kastane. This garuda interpretation seems to resemble a cross between the more typical form and the dragonlike kastane hilt?

23rd June 2009, 07:35 PM	#1
ingelred Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Moenchengladbach, Germany Posts: 62	Hello and thank You all for Your comments. Of course You are right, it is a Garuda hilt. Seems as if I did not read Coomaraswamy's Medieval Sinhalese Art well enough. Maskell, thank You for the link. Actually this threat is one of the sources why I believe this knife to be related to the Piha Kaetta. Here is another threat to this toppic depicting Pihas with Garuda hilts. http://www.vikingsword.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001998.html Best regards, Helge

24th June 2009, 07:39 AM	#2
M ELEY Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,184	Very nice piece of rarer form. Looking over Maskell's thread, I was reminded of Sri Lanka's other figural hilted weapon, the kastane. This garuda interpretation seems to resemble a cross between the more typical form and the dragonlike kastane hilt?