Anil Kumar watch this master piece. I am sure you know its workmanship and know how to make it. I have seen your master work

This reminds of a comparison made between Indian and British swords in a monograph on the Mutiny by a British infantry solider: "I consider that the swords supplied to our officers, cavalry and artillery, are far inferior as weapons of offence to a really good Oriental tulwar...In the first place, then, for cutting our English regulation swords are too straight ; the Eastern curved blade is far more efl'ective as a cutting weapon. Secondly, our English swords are far too blunt, whereas the native swords are as keen in edge as a well-stropped razor..." It's well worth reading it in its entirety here: http://archive.org/stream/cu31924064186566#page/n307/mode/2up

Agree and who's sword was this btw ?

Shashi Kolar: Will Durant wrote in The Story of Civilization I: Our Oriental Heritage: "Something has been said about the chemical excellence of cast iron in ancient India, and about the high industrial development of the Gupta times, when India was looked to, even by Imperial Rome, as the most skilled of the nations in such chemical industries as dyeing, tanning, soap-making, glass and cement... By the sixth century the Hindus were far ahead of Europe in industrial chemistry; they were masters of calcinations, distillation, sublimation, steaming, fixation, the production of light without heat, the mixing of anesthetic and soporific powders, and the preparation of metallic salts, compounds and alloys. The tempering of steel was brought in ancient India to a perfection unknown in Europe till our own times; King Porus is said to have selected, as a specially valuable gift from Alexander, not gold or silver, but thirty pounds of steel. The Moslems took much of this Hindu chemical science and industry to the Near East and Europe; the secret of manufacturing "Damascus" blades, for example, was taken by the Arabs from the Persians, and by the Persians from India."

thanx mayur bhai,for your convenience, this is really a great sword's hilt,a rare antique craftsmanship,