[Pusaka]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

I've forgotten most of this Donny, but in some Hindu sacrifices the preferred blade needed to be bronze, in my memory the Horse Sacrifice required a bronze blade to be used, but don't trust my memory, it is sometimes faulty.

In Jawa it seems likely that blood sacrifice occurred at Candi Prambanan, and blood sacrifice is a part of Hindu ritual --- and of course Islamic ritual.

You won't find this sort of thing reading up about keris, to understand the keris you do not read books about keris, you need to read extensively in anthropology, history, sociology, comparative religion, art.

You do not study keris to learn keris.

At the time the Vedas were wrote (and thus the horse sacrifices) I think they only had copper and bronze blades so there was no possibility of using an Iron or steel blade. Some Indians claim however Ayas is Iron and use this to claim that Indians were the first to forge Iron blades (despite the fact Aryans came into India from the North thus even if it were true Aryans were not Indians)