Should we still use the Khanda Symbol?

[intrigued]

Anyone know when the khanda first emerged? Also how has it evolved throughout the centuries?

[intrigued]

Not khanda like the shastar, but the symbol that is associated with Sikhi today...

[intrigued]

ok....i did a little digging and found an old thread: 

The conclusion that I drew from this was that the khanda most likely originated from a variation used in the british times and evolved since to what we have today.

 

My question now is: should we still use the khanda or revert back to more puratan symbols?

[GurjantGnostic]

23 hours ago, intrigued said:

ok....i did a little digging and found an old thread: 

The conclusion that I drew from this was that the khanda most likely originated from a variation used in the british times and evolved since to what we have today.

 

My question now is: should we still use the khanda or revert back to more puratan symbols?

It's not from Gadar movement?

[intrigued]

31 minutes ago, GurjantGnostic said:

It's not from Gadar movement?

No we see variations of the khanda in the early british sikh armies...

[Ranjeet01]

The modern Khanda as we see it today was influenced by the Brits.

It is put together in a similar way you see the goreh put their coat of arms. 

The traditional way was separate. I think the poster Not2Cool2Argue has it on his moniker.

[intrigued]

6 minutes ago, Ranjeet01 said:

The modern Khanda as we see it today was influenced by the Brits.

It is put together in a similar way you see the goreh put their coat of arms. 

The traditional way was separate. I think the poster Not2Cool2Argue has it on his moniker.

Right...i think it looks something like what's on this nishan sahib:

 

But I dont think this was widely used as a standard sikh symbol. Instead ੴ was used more often...

[GurjantGnostic]

Original Nishan Sahib being what it is, we still didn't really answer the question how did the Khanda symbol emerge?

We know it changed. We know the pommies were around. I've yet to hear concrete references that the pommies changed it or influenced it changing. 

[dharamyudh]

1 minute ago, GurjantGnostic said:

Original Nishan Sahib being what it is, we still didn't really answer the question how did the Khanda symbol emerge?

We know it changed. We know the pommies were around. I've yet to hear concrete references that the pommies changed it or influenced it changing. 

From what I heard it was kind of formulated from letters. Sikhs from foreign countries used to send letters back home that had different variations of the modern day Khanda. After a while it became to what we have today and became the standard. 

[dharamyudh]

Also, why is it that we don't have any puratan Nishan Sahibs that are preserved? There were literally two at Sri Harmandir Sahib. It's almost like there is no trace of them except for pictures and puratan art.