Different grades of Pakems?

Jussi M. · 8th July 2010, 12:22 AM

Greetings,

sorry if I in my ignorance make a stupid question but given that the keris is governed by the Pakem I wonder what kind of Pakem´s(?) were there (if there were) besides the "official" Pakems of the Karatons?

For example, what kind of "rules" or "rulesbooks" did the rural village pandai kerises use as their guidelines if they did not have access for the actual court versions? - or did they had hand-drawn "xerox-copies" of the official Karaton version?

If the keris is truly a Karaton art it thus brings up the question about how should we see those kerises that were made in the rural villages by rural pandai kerises using - my point exactly - what kind of guidelines? - Are they thus kerises or keris-like objects or are they both depending which point of view is chosen? Was it so that one mans keris was another mans keris-like object even when we speak of men living under the influence of the same karaton but whom have severely different status and hence different grade kerises to portrays this status?

I am puzzled

J.

8th July 2010, 12:22 AM	#1
Jussi M. Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 235	Different grades of Pakems? Greetings, sorry if I in my ignorance make a stupid question but given that the keris is governed by the Pakem I wonder what kind of Pakem´s(?) were there (if there were) besides the "official" Pakems of the Karatons? For example, what kind of "rules" or "rulesbooks" did the rural village pandai kerises use as their guidelines if they did not have access for the actual court versions? - or did they had hand-drawn "xerox-copies" of the official Karaton version? If the keris is truly a Karaton art it thus brings up the question about how should we see those kerises that were made in the rural villages by rural pandai kerises using - my point exactly - what kind of guidelines? - Are they thus kerises or keris-like objects or are they both depending which point of view is chosen? Was it so that one mans keris was another mans keris-like object even when we speak of men living under the influence of the same karaton but whom have severely different status and hence different grade kerises to portrays this status? I am puzzled J.