Sinhala / Sri Lankan Swords?

[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by PrasannaWeerakkody

Dear Ibrahiim

Sorry if you are offended by my using your name as Balooshi. I was not aware that it was in any way offensive to you. my regrets on this one. shall call you Ibrahiim from now on. My sincere apologies...

For whoever is interested I provided a rather basic outline of the main figures on a kasthana hilt based on the traditional Sinhala presentation of beast forms on my post dated 6th Oct 2012 Including Lion Makara and Serapendiya.

regards

Prasanna

Salaams PrasannaWeerakkody ~ Thank you for your posts and oddly enough I was actually reading back through and noted your reference to the Serapendiya and had already started looking into the link.

You have no idea how important it is to have such a specialist as yourself actually in country . It is so important. We have made staggering gains on the detail now on library which if you look back to #1 you will see where the start point was...at least on this thread.

I was amazed to learn from the anecdotal 1807 detail that the weapon was in fact also used as a badge of rank identifier and was at that time being produced in the Royal Sword workshops.

Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi