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Bill Paxton, I think your post may have been missed by Uncle Bill since he didnt answer your question about a different khukuri being desired by different people in the Ghorka Units.
I am bad about names but I think it is the Rai tribe that prefers the Sirupati to other khukuris when it comes to fighting.
There's another tribe as well and Uncle Bill will be able to name the tribe, but I believe it started with an *L* and peerhaps some others as well prefered the Sirupati.
There are a lot of different tribes in Nepal for Nepal to be as small a country as it is.
I can imagine the fighting that went on there before the 1st Ghorka king assembled all of Nepal into one force for the good of everyone, such as that may have been as I haven't read the history. And knowing how history is written by the winners I know how off sided it can be and I wuldn't know a good example of Nepali history compared to a bad one.
Most of the ndn fighting on this continent was a game in fairly good times. It was only during times of very severe shortages in food that the ndn people had true warfare before the coming of the Europeans, but times really had to be terribly hard becuase of the amount of land we had to roam compared to what there is in Nepal.
And most people on this continent had stockpiles of food that could keep as long as 30 years.
The old style pemmican would keep that long in underground store rooms where the temperature was a constant.
The Cherokees and other southern tribes played stickball and the game was called "The little war" You could be seriously injured in stickball, still can for that matter.
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