Gonzalo,
You must remember that trade between India, Arabia, Africa and the Mediterranean was rather intense from the second century AD, if not before, both by caravan and by sea – just as the trade between India and SEA are was.
This leads to that weapons from one country can have been adopted as they were, or modified to the ‘new’ market.
The only Indian weapon, which as not adopted by others, was the katar, which is strange, as it is a very powerful weapon. Blade were sold, and copied in the different countries, but there is one thing which does not seem to have been copied, and that are the hilt, although it is difficult to be quite sure with the very early types.
Jens
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