Thanks guys,
Hello DhaDha, I didn't realy look into the katar aspect of things, as I was mainly intersted in obviously khukuri, but also the Khunda/Kora, due to some other threads on here, and I wanted to see what the top Nepalese historians had to say on the matter, rather than third or fourth hand accounts from old English collectors, of whom all but one had never even been to Nepal.
Hello Ted, Certainley the kukri that were carried as side arms and for general use in the old days had functional handles rather than ornate, except fot the sword hilted ones.
In the paintings of the Shah's and Rana's the kukri handles are a lot more elaborate, which suggests that the ones for show were more ornately made.
Indeed the village/town kami still make rough handled and bladed kukri as per the pic.
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