Random chosen pictures of the Oriental beauties

[Radu Transylvanicus]

WOLVIEX, JENS: I envy you for having a copy of that book!
Please excuse my lack of manners and overconfidence but so far here I consider my opinions are close to a certitude but if I go on to the rest of the presented items it would merely be a guess, so I leave Jeff, Jim and even more Rivkin to bring more light at least on the "Caucasian scimitar"...
Pane Wolvieksowky, you bring me light on my "Transylvanian mystery sword" and you can enslave my brain ...
Jens, Why I insist on Mysore is only because I came across pieces from similar to almost identical degree from the Mysore...
Jens, please tell me more about the therm "khurasani", I want to learn as much as I can about the Hindu scimitars ! I used kilij but probably i shouldve gone for the term scimitar, Genus (scimitar) vs. Family (kilij).
Is this particular Indo-Persian type of scimitar a "khurasani" ? I was looking for a descriptive nomenclature for the non-talwar Hindu Scimitars! Is it a Hindu or Persian word (sounds very Persian to me: Isfahan, Teheran, Hamadan, Zahadan, Khurasan ); is it lingvisticaly widespread ? Not even one mention on the quintesentially archaic Camron Stone's "Glossary of Arms and Armor" , not a word either on Anthony Tirri's "Islamic weapons - Maghrib to Moghul" which is another book from the Pandora's box ... but at least the inside the last one I found two zoomorphic pommelheads: first one, somehow similar (page 283) and a second one, very similar (page 284) pommel head catalogued as makkara (monster) rather then leopard/tiger I assigned. Also Tirri (the author) labels vaguely enough the hilts as "Central Indian" ...
Cheers !