Tulwar with a hidden text

katana · 30th January 2007, 09:57 PM

A very fine Tulwar Jens ....very nice indeed

Jens Nordlunde · 30th January 2007, 10:51 PM

Someone recently wrote on a keris forum a thing that made me think a bit. He wrote, and I quote from memory – the discussion was about the symbolic values.

‘If you want to know something about the symbolic value, you have to marry into one of the families which still knows about them, and even then you may not be told all.’

I do think, this tells us, that this knowledge is not easy for us to find, but somehow we will have to find it, to understand the weapons we collect the better.

Sikh_soldier · 2nd February 2007, 01:20 AM

very nice tulwar, very ornate hilt.

regarding the inscription, indeed sikhs do not have any association with black magic. Also, this text is not inscribed in Gurmukhi (or punjabi) which was the language of the sikhs at that time (as well as present)
Some of the sikh scriptures where written in sanskrit but this is not sanskrit either.
(pictures attached of sanskrit and gurmukhi alphabet)

2nd February 2007, 01:20 AM	#3
Sikh_soldier Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 87	tulwar very nice tulwar, very ornate hilt. regarding the inscription, indeed sikhs do not have any association with black magic. Also, this text is not inscribed in Gurmukhi (or punjabi) which was the language of the sikhs at that time (as well as present) Some of the sikh scriptures where written in sanskrit but this is not sanskrit either. (pictures attached of sanskrit and gurmukhi alphabet) Attached Images

30th January 2007, 09:57 PM	#1
katana Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kent Posts: 2,658	A very fine Tulwar Jens ....very nice indeed

30th January 2007, 10:51 PM	#2
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	Someone recently wrote on a keris forum a thing that made me think a bit. He wrote, and I quote from memory – the discussion was about the symbolic values. ‘If you want to know something about the symbolic value, you have to marry into one of the families which still knows about them, and even then you may not be told all.’ I do think, this tells us, that this knowledge is not easy for us to find, but somehow we will have to find it, to understand the weapons we collect the better.