What's the background on the Jure blade ?

[ddean]

What's the background on the Jure blade ?

Ms Yangdu ?

Anybody ?


Who uses it for what? ...when? ...how? ...why?


Searched & found nothing about it.


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[Nasty]

I'm betting on it's being an agricultural implement...

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[Kismet]

My bet is that it is for field dressing baked potatoes. Gut hook and scoop shape. The Spud Hunter's delight.

 

[Dave Rishar]

Definitely a barbecue knife. Perfect size and shape for cutting meat, prepping potatos, slicing up tomatos and onions for the burgers...and is that a bottle opener projecting from the bottom?

I can't wait to hear the story behind this one.

 

[ms514]

Hmmm...not skinning knife? That tip has a slight flare for gut hook functionality?

O maybe best for juggling knives at a carnival...

 

[ddean]

... Perfect size and shape for cutting meat, prepping potatos, slicing up tomatos and onions for the burgers...and is that a bottle opener projecting from the bottom?

Dont forget the tip for flipping,
and the flat for mashing & turning.

And the 'proto-cho' 'bottle-opener'
is actually for hanging the blade on the edge of a wood table.







[my best guess is the garden harvesting tool.
It would fill in some niches the Hasiya doesn't fill]


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[ddean]

Found the origin,

but not how it is used now in Nepal ? ?

or how it got 'our' handle ?

and the 'jure' name ?


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Ancient blade style used for skinning & butchering;
now most often seen as a ritual/symbolic object

http://www.kheper.net/topics/Buddhism/ritual.html
"This curved flaying-knife is modeled on the Indian ' knife of the butchers', used for skinning animal hides. The gibbous crescent of its blade, which terminates in a sharp point or curved hook, combines the flaying implements of a cutting-knife and scraping blade, and the piercing activity of a dagger or pulling-hook. The blade's crescent is used for cutting through flesh and scraping it clean, separating the outer and inner as 'appearance and emptiness'. The sharp hook or point of the blade is used for the more delicate acts of flaying: the initial incising of the carcass, the pulling out of veins and tendons, and cutting around the orifices of the skin."

http://www.yoniversum.nl/dakini/kartrika.html
"Kartri, Kartrika
Skt., karttrka
Tib., gri-gug; gri-gsug
Chopper, Curved Knife, Flaying Knife "
"Hayagriva Chopper (rta mgrin gri gug)" ritual chopper

"Both an actual tool and an iconographic attribute, the ritual chopper (or flaying knife) is known in both Hindu and Buddhist symbolism; although its shape is different in both.
It is an attribute of several Dharmapala's and certain Dakinis and Yoginis; indicating their manifestation as Tantric deities.
As a ritual tool, this knife is used in what is called Sky-Burial, the Tibetan practice of taking the deceased into the open countryside where the corpse is chopped to pieces and then left to be devoured by carrion birds and other animals. When the kartrika's handle is topped by (half) a dorje - which it usually is - the exact name should be given as vajrakartika and/or rdo-rje grig-gug; yet this is done only sometimes.
In India, it is mainly associated with the fierce aspects of the goddess Kali, symbolizing her destructive powers and sometimes depicted with an eye on the blade. "


Not knowing the proper pronunciations from transliterations,
I'll still hazard a guess that 'jure'
derives in sound & meaning from
'rdo-rje' ==> 'do-re' ==> 'ju-re'
Maybe.



More input appreciated.


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[Yangdu]

The Jure knife is new design by Sher brother Kancha Kami. It was named after a bird called the Jureli. This bird is a native bird of Nepal. The Jure Knife is a small utility knife that can be used for skinning, chopping and general kitchen use.

 

[Bri in Chi]

So Satori's right. Good call.