The Knaud

[A. G. Maisey]

There is a number impressed or engraved on the keris blade that has been written in one of the ways that dates were written during the Majapahit era.

Most people assume that this date was placed there at the time of manufacture.

So linking this number to a date of origin is pure assumption. It could have been placed there at any time.

The Knaud is the only keris-like object that we know of that has a number permanently affixed to it.

Further, why must it be linked to Panataran?

Even if we could find exactly similar pictures in the Panataran bas reliefs to the pictures on the Knaud that does not prove anything except that the Knaud pictures might have been copied from Panataran, and this could happen at any time after the construction of Panataran.

There is much more that needs to be queried in the Knaud story.