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Jens Nordlunde · 22nd December 2006, 05:04 PM

I don’t know what these teghas were used for, it could be executioner’s swords, or it could be swords used by guards – or maybe something else.

Egerton referrers to them in his book, see #398 and 399. He does not write what they were used for, but he writes that both were from Jodhpur, and in a note to the first one he writes. ‘….Much used by Mahrattes and Rajpoots in the time of Hyder Ali. Very hard and brittle’.

This could indicate that they were not used as executioner’s swords, as the number of executioner’s must have been limited.

22nd December 2006, 05:04 PM	#6
Jens Nordlunde Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Europe Posts: 2,713	I don’t know what these teghas were used for, it could be executioner’s swords, or it could be swords used by guards – or maybe something else. Egerton referrers to them in his book, see #398 and 399. He does not write what they were used for, but he writes that both were from Jodhpur, and in a note to the first one he writes. ‘….Much used by Mahrattes and Rajpoots in the time of Hyder Ali. Very hard and brittle’. This could indicate that they were not used as executioner’s swords, as the number of executioner’s must have been limited.