Small Katar

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Originally Posted by adrian

Their general stature was much smaller than the average of today. My Katar is also too small for my hand, as is my Tulwar...

I will obviously concur with such assessment. Not only their hands were small but also slim ... enough to fit into those weapons narrow hilts. There are so many accounts of this particularity that, otherwise, all such recorded Indian hilts being for young men, would be implausible.