I think Oliver has a very strong point, to say that they must have been copied by someone not able to read the characters.
Think of how many blades are 'signed' by Assad Ullah, had he made all the blade himself he would have been likely to have be 400 years old – or something like that.
Copies of inscriptions were made. Some when the blade was made and some later, and some were better at copying than others.
To me this inscription is a crude copy, maybe made later than the blade.
Jens
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