Hi Fernando,
The figure of five hundred thousand
pieces is given by Antonio Conceicao on the link you provided
. How many of these are weapons is open to debate I guess, but I assume Mr. Daenhardt would need some sort of warehouse besides his mannor to store them adequately.
Ariel, thanks for posting the gaddara pics. The sword immediately brought to mind the sabre attributed to Charlemagne.
Interesting that gaddara sounds a lot like qaddara, albeit a completely different sword form.
I don't want to hijack the thread but speaking of foreign influences, what we call a
firangi is, according to E. Jaiwant Paul, called so only when a trade blade is involved. Otherwise it is called a
dhup or alternatively a
sukhela (Arms and Armour: Traditional Weapons of India, p.56)
Emanuel