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Old 6th March 2011, 02:14 PM   #1
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Default Unusual hilt

A strange old hilt from Java. The animal on the base is a sacred bull (?) with wings. Can any keris forum friends to help me to know what he is?
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Old 8th March 2011, 02:42 AM   #2
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the sacred bull, Nandi, is one of the vehicles of Vishnu. Vishnu had a lion avatar, so the lion face could be Vishnu.
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the sacred bull, Nandi, is one of the vehicles of Vishnu. Vishnu had a lion avatar, so the lion face could be Vishnu.
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