with tapering double-edged blade adapted from a sword blade and with remains of an incised inscription on one side at the forte, characteristic russet iron hilt retaining traces of gilding and comprising a shaped riveted plate extending over each side of the forte, tapering side-bars chiselled around the borders with repeated botehs and pierced with symmetrical foliage at the top, baluster grips with two small beads between, and recurved triangular hand-guard arcaded beneath and decorated en suite with the side-bars, rising to a bud-shaped finial and with chiselled reinforcing bar beneath (old rust patination and pitting), 28.7 cm blade

See Robert Elgood, Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865, Chicago 2004, pp. 145-162.