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Old 25th October 2015, 12:58 AM   #7
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So historically in the Persian and Arabic world, what I think might have been early forms of wootz swords were called shamshir e Hindi or saif e Hindi, meaning Indian sword or sword from India.

While I have not seen "saif e hindi", I have seen "saif-al-hind" mentioned as the Arabic term for Indian swords.

Cultural Forum, Volume 8, Special Number On Mussology, India, Ministry Of Education. (left quote)

Sind Quarterly, Volume 10, Mazhar Yusuf, 1982.(right quote)
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