Widely used name for a hollow-ground Indonesian headhunter sword. (A.k.a. mandau).
A peculiar land Dayak sword with a sharp bend in the blade.
Widely used but incorrect name for the parang beladah, a type of saber from the southern part of Kalimantan.
The sword of the Murut, headhunters of northern Borneo.
Old Javanese word for a type of arrow with a crescent moon shaped arrowhead.
An Indian gauntlet sword.
Dzongkha name for the Bhutanese sword.
Alternative name for a Sinhalese processional polearm.
See patisthānaya below.
A Sinhalese processional polearm.
Nepali word for the "shoulder" of a khukurī blade.
Nepali word for the Chinese magnolia wood used to make khukurī handles.
The Four Workshops of the King of Kandy.
Language: Sanskrit
Origin: Dhanurveda of circa 1100-800 B.C.
Sinhalese term for a decorative motif that consists of elongated triangles with two sides of equal length.
Indonesian word meaning "curved sword".
Indonesian term meaning "straight sword". Often used to describe a specific silver-clad shortsword.
Sinhala for grooves on a blade. (Fullers).
Literally "waist-worn-saber".
Widely used Persian word for a type of dagger.
An Acehnese type of saber
Hindi. Literally "fruit". Name for blades, arrowheads, spearheads.
A type of axe associated with the Khond people of India.
Nepali word for wootz, a type of prized crucible steel.
Chinese name for a class of broadhead arrows.
Chinese name for a class of broadhead arrows. (Alternative spelling using an archaic character).