Goodness gracious me!
Against my will I have been drawn into this.
Ms Baganing, I am most ignorant of the area of your speciality, but I am quite familiar with monumental works in Jawa, most especially those showing depictions of the keris.
To the best of my knowledge, every keris shown in Jawanese monumental works does indeed look like a keris.
Will you please advise me of the name of the temple in Jawa that has a depiction of a keris that does not look like a keris?
Further, just to demonstrate my purely objective approach to this matter of what is and is not a keris, may I remind all that there are some Javanese keris which do indeed not run true to the usually accepted classic definition of a keris.However, in all cases the naming is substantiated by inclusion in a royally authorised reference.
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