Subject: ahadi 'single' heavy cavalryman
Culture: Mughal
Setting: Great Mughal empire, Hindustan/Deccan late 16th-early 18thc
Object: chilanum dagger
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Dagger (chilanum) Indian, Mysore, 17th century
This is the normal form of chilanum, with its waisted hilt,
flaring pommel branches and double-curved blade.
The armour-piercing point suggests and early date." ...
* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor
"Dagger Steel, nephrite, gold, rubies India, Mughal period, about 1700"
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Dagger (chilanum) South Indian, 17th century
Of one-piece construction in steel, with a pronounced armour-piercing point.
The waisted hilt with a knucklebow is associated with sites on the east coast." ...
* Higgins Armory Museum > Scimitars to Samurai: Arms and Armor around the World
"Chilanum (dagger), late 1500s-early 1600s
Royal Armouries Museum > Oriental Gallery *
"Dagger (chilanum) South Indian, 17th century
Of one-piece construction in steel, with a pronounced armour-piercing point.
The waisted hilt with a knucklebow is associated with sites on the east coast." ...
