Ethnographic Arms & Armour - The correct name

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The correct name

http://www.oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=3202

Thanks Roy. Artzi doesn't name this sword, sossun patah. How to name a knife? Still opinions?

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Originally Posted by mahratt

http://www.oriental-arms.com/item.php?id=3202

Thanks Roy. Artzi doesn't name this sword, sossun patah. How to name a knife? Still opinions?

The knife is a type of pesh.

What I know about Indian swords could be written on the head of a pin, however, I do have a few references --- Egerton, Stone, Paul, Rawson --- in these the sosunpattah is shown with a slimmer blade, much like a yatagan.

A blade form is shown that comes very close to the sword under discussion, and this the Ajanta sword, however, no specific name is given for this sword form.

Ajanta swords date from the 6th - 7th century.

Possibly this much later sword has no common name, it may well be a sword that was commissioned as a copy of the archaic swords shown in the Ajanta cave frescoes near Aurangabad. As such it would come from the root of the kopis, as does the sosunpattah and a number of other blade forms.

This post has been made to encourage others with more knowledge than I have to demonstrate its incorrectness.

Thanks! With a knife - have understood. Still opinions on a sword?