Beats me...
I just do not understand why don’t we have any physical “ trunk” swords?
We have living examples of outdated temple swords, super heavy training swords, exotic tribal swords, variety of sousson pattas, - i.e. by definition rare examples that were superseded by the widely used ones, but no “trunk” swords.
Fighting elephants were used for centuries and in humongous numbers. And still, we have physical examples of “ tusk” swords but not “ trunk “ ones.
Perhaps, the local medieval chapter of Indian PETA banned their use and destroyed all the specimens:-))))))
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