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I thought I'd post the descriptions of Akbar's weapons from the Ain-Akbari, for reference. My apologies but there is repetition from Mercenary's original thread On the Use of Indian Terms for Identification of Weapon Types
This is from a digital copy of the translation by H. Blochmann, Calcutta 1873. Quote:
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Possibly original plates. Made available on Wikimedia Commons (by a Russian speaker
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Plate from Egerton
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Aziz, Abdul, Arms and jewellery of the Indian Mughuls, Lahore, 1947. Originally posted by Jens.
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Emanuel, I will be back home and put here clear picture without my joke. And may be some more about Akbar weapons.
I see you have already found the right picture ))) |
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Yup!
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Be back too :-).
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Did you know that the lasso was also used, although it was not considered as a noble weapon?
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Excellent, thank you Mercenary! Now if anyone could get a shot from the original manuscript or one of its copies/facsimile that would be great
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If you have a look at the plate shown in post 3, I am wondering why some of the blades are so long.
Look at no 26 Jamdhar Doulicaneh and no 32 Jamdhar Skhlicaneh. They have two or three points, but I am wondering if, when you try to stap someone, the stap would stop quite early - or a very big force would be needed, and they would be no good against mail armour. So why did they make Jandhars like that? Jens |
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Egerton explained Doulicaneh and Sehlicaneh as follows:
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I wrote the proper pronunciations for this image, there is another image with Farsi names if you can get me a better copy of it I can do the same.
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Emanuel,
Yes you are likely right, when it comes to the two or three bladed Jandhars, as anything else would be cloes to impossible. Jens |
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Many thanks. It is correct: "bank" is just "curved dagger". Any curved dagger. |
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I tried to see if I could find a meaning for bAnk, but I could not find it in Farsi, it could be an Indian term.
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