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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?

24th June 2009, 07:39 AM	#13
M ELEY Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,138	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?