Subject: ahadi 'single' heavy cavalryman

Culture: Mughal

Setting: Great Mughal empire, Hindustan/Deccan late 16th-early 18thc

Object: chilanum dagger

* Metropolitan Museum of Art > Stone Gallery of Arms and Armor

"Dagger Steel, nephrite, gold, rubies India, Mughal period, about 1700"

* Higgins Armory Museum > Scimitars to Samurai: Arms and Armor around the World

"Chilanum (dagger), late 1500s-early 1600s Deccan (southern India) Steel; silver and gold inlay; iron Weight: 1 lb." ...

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." ...

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." ...

* 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." ...