On the Use of Indian Terms for Identification of Weapon Types

[Mercenary]

Originally Posted by ariel

First of all, not every weapon known to us by its ( presumed) name was mentioned in that book.
Second, this book listed weapons, not their modes of decoration.
No sense listing a dagger with a flower-like handle, since there must have been examples of the same dagger without it, or with handles of a variety of different styles.

So it is no separate kind of dagger. This is progress.
What do you think were there any different types of hilt decoration at Jahangir court?