"Tiger teeth dagger"

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Originally Posted by Akaalarms

Eric,

My experience is based on North Indian languages and culture, but I guess, the Arab traders and settlers, especially in South India, would have used the word 'Jambiya'. Do you have a title and author for the encyclopedia?

Thanks for the link for the Hermann Historica books, I didn't realize they were still available. I have the 1984 and 1986 with the Tiger tooth and Pesh Kabz on it, does anybody know if the others are worth buying?

Regards
Runjeet

Runjeet, this is it. "The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial, Industrial and Scientific, Products of the Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal Kingdoms, Useful Arts and Manufactures, Volume 3",
Edward Balfour, B. Quaritch, 1885.