Nepal Trip 2009 report

sirupate · 2nd October 2009, 02:20 PM

Another thing that intersted me, was did the Nepalese have specific names for the hilts on the khukuri below;

According to the General thay called them sword hilted khukuri, no specific name for handle types.
I was also interested if they had a particular name for this khukuri type below;
Bhakti Thapa's khukuri;

Kaji Amar Singh Thapa's khukuri;

He said there was no name for this style of khukuri, they were used with single or two hands, and the ring around the handle of that style of khukuri was a dividing ring for the hands. I then asked him about the terminology that has started to be used in the West 'Lambendh', he had never heard if it, it certainley wasn't a term he had heard of, let alone a term that applied to that type of khukuri.
Swords used by Bhakti Thapa;

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sirupate Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: England Posts: 373	Another thing that intersted me, was did the Nepalese have specific names for the hilts on the khukuri below; According to the General thay called them sword hilted khukuri, no specific name for handle types. I was also interested if they had a particular name for this khukuri type below; Bhakti Thapa's khukuri; Kaji Amar Singh Thapa's khukuri; He said there was no name for this style of khukuri, they were used with single or two hands, and the ring around the handle of that style of khukuri was a dividing ring for the hands. I then asked him about the terminology that has started to be used in the West 'Lambendh', he had never heard if it, it certainley wasn't a term he had heard of, let alone a term that applied to that type of khukuri. Swords used by Bhakti Thapa;