Pata sword with European blade

Jens Nordlunde · 7th August 2016, 09:00 PM

In The Antiquities of Orissa, vol. I. Rajendralala Mitra on page 198 writes something I find quite interesting.

"The Marhattas had a large steel gauntlet, but it has no ancient name."

We must remember that Mitra wrote about ancient Orissa temple statue decorations, and not about such 'modern' weapons as the ones from the 16th or 17 th century:-).

This leads me to think that the gauntles sword/dagger maybe could be from the 16th century, and not much earlier - if earlier at all.

7th August 2016, 09:00 PM	#11
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,718	In The Antiquities of Orissa, vol. I. Rajendralala Mitra on page 198 writes something I find quite interesting. "The Marhattas had a large steel gauntlet, but it has no ancient name." We must remember that Mitra wrote about ancient Orissa temple statue decorations, and not about such 'modern' weapons as the ones from the 16th or 17 th century:-). This leads me to think that the gauntles sword/dagger maybe could be from the 16th century, and not much earlier - if earlier at all.