Keris Tindih -- The Neutralizer

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Originally Posted by Raden Usman Djogja

...Guys, what is "panthek" in English? Please give me an English word you know whenever I ask, so here at least I can learn keris, supranatural and english. thank in advance...

Raden,

Maybe "panthek" is drilling... But I don't see the correlation between panthek and tindih. Or "tindik" (with "k")? Sometimes, people gave tindik to a blade. In some "kujang" (special pusaka from West Java) had tindik. In Kalimantan too, a "powerful" mandau (their traditional sword) had "tindik" too (although the local name, of course, is not tindhik as Javanese says). The many tindhik a mandau has, the more powerful the mandau. (One tindhik in a mandau, means one human head had been slashed with that weapon...).

About "Jalak Budo", here is an example (See picture below). I have two Jalak Budo, and this is one of them. This Jalak Budo, supposed to be from "budo era" around 10th century. Look at the "stoney" iron of the blade, and a little bit clayish..
The hilt, is "kalawija" (unordinary), with elephant-head figure..

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