I leave Dr. Pant in the eye of the beholder, cert fact is that he is much deeper than Eggerton, which was quoted and used without problem and we all know what his background was.
B.i. I stick with Rajasthan and Gujarat (CW India) as I believe this to have much Mughal in it. As far as ,,ice-bird,, (swan,duck,peacock...) I reffered to it as actually Persian symbol (pardon me if I got you confused) not Indian but as a inheritance via Mughals, the Islamic half not the Hindoo half, the Hindoo half was rather reserved for the other beast head.
I left unmentioned yesterday but very pertinent i see Jens bringing the floral motif executed in ,,Islamic,, fashion, symililarities with Mughal tiles are more than striking...
Unless Pant was wrong mentioning relatively similar swords in his museum as being Gujarati, Rajahstani I sustain as being from that area, his involvement resumes to this.
Before we light anymore fuses and blow a spark
just like in case of the yathagans its next to impossible to claim 100% apartenence to one small region, specially when artifacts come from a subcontinent so interactive like Hindustan and they look cloned regardless they were made one hundred or one thousand years ago...
P.S. nothing could be more hilarious than us pointing each other as working on ,,suppositions,, , B.I. do you not work based on that like I do ?
Perhaps at times mines are more bold and some get touchy ...
