Ethnographic Arms & Armour - View Single Post - Keris-making criteria (?)

A. G. Maisey · 2nd April 2008, 10:44 AM

This is not Indonesian, nor Javanese.

Some of the words might be mispelt, for instance, "ratna sepurna" sounds to me like it should be "ratna sempurna" = "perfect gem"

Cendrawati I do not recognise, but cendrawasi is a type of bird.

There are other words that by themselves make sense, but in combination make no sense---nagaran sounds like nagara : city, realm, even country; cinta : love; siku is a 90 degree angle, or an elbow.

I rather suspect this could be some obscure dialect.

As to it being that which should be observed when commissioning a keris, well its news to me.Maybe somewhere, but not where I went to school.

2nd April 2008, 10:44 AM	#2
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 6,991	This is not Indonesian, nor Javanese. Some of the words might be mispelt, for instance, "ratna sepurna" sounds to me like it should be "ratna sempurna" = "perfect gem" Cendrawati I do not recognise, but cendrawasi is a type of bird. There are other words that by themselves make sense, but in combination make no sense---nagaran sounds like nagara : city, realm, even country; cinta : love; siku is a 90 degree angle, or an elbow. I rather suspect this could be some obscure dialect. As to it being that which should be observed when commissioning a keris, well its news to me.Maybe somewhere, but not where I went to school.