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Old 2nd April 2008, 11:57 AM   #3
Alam Shah
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Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey
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.
Hi Alan,

Perhaps... the words could be misspelt or a corruption of the original word. I do not know. Is there by any chance it's Krama Inggil?

I don't think that it something like a procedure to be observed per se but rather to classify/put the keris requestor/commissioner into a certain group, something like a grading system (eg. caste system)... perhap? What do you think? It's just a haunch... until the meaning is known it cannot be certain.

Source = unknown. But I was told that it is practiced in the northern Malay Peninsular.
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