Kami Mark Question

[oldschool45]

I'm starting to "tool" or carve the designs on my leather sheaths. If I want to meaningfully represent who the maker of blade is which symbol or set of symbols do I need to use? Everything engraved in front of the left bolster or just 1 of the symbols. The confusion I have is that the marks by Santosh and Murali have 3 of 4 symbols in common with each other but none in common with marks by Young Sher. If somebody could shed some light on this for me I'd greatly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Ray

 

[JayGoliath]

Old School,

Despite the fact Young Sher is Sher the Tiger's brother,Santosh (their nephew) has a closer resemblance of Kami signature.

Young Sher's (one of the new ones) Madal drum

Santosh's

Sher's

Murali's

I got most of my infos here.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=759104&highlight=young+sher

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=738732&highlight=santosh+mark&page=2

 

[Karda]

If you want to meaningfully represent the kami, you should use his mark and his devangari initials. In the pics above(and normally) you will see the initials, the kami mark and the sun(star) with 4 rays( H.I. symbol) near the bolster on the left side. On the right side near the spine at the bend of the blade is devangari (hee and ee) for H.I. and either english or devangari for U.B. near the bolster.

 

[oldschool45]

Jay and Karda, thanks to my western eye it looks like Santosh & Murali share at least 1 initial. Upper right position of the 4 symbols?
Now I get to brow beat MS Word into displaying devangari for me so I have a clean symbol that I can enlarge and practice on. The font in MS word that I think is closest is Aparajita if anyone has used it or has another one that they think is closer please let me know.
Thanks

 

[Karda]

Jay and Karda, thanks to my western eye it looks like Santosh & Murali share at least 1 initial. Upper right position of the 4 symbols?

Most of the kami's will share that initial because they all share the last name
of Bishwakarma, as a caste descriptor, though they may not be related to one another.

Now I get to brow beat MS Word into displaying devangari for me so I have a clean symbol that I can enlarge and practice on. The font in MS word that I think is closest is Aparajita if anyone has used it or has another one that they think is closer please let me know.
Thanks

Aparajita may be the closest one. To be sure you could probably email Auntie to ask what style the kami's actually use.