| Forum: Ethnographic Weapons  7th July 2007, 11:18 AM | 
	
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				 The first signs must almost certainly be... 
 The first signs must almost certainly be 'letters' rather than numerals, the shapes are too distinctive (esp. with the vowel-matras).  The first 'letter' could be perhaps either 'po' or 'pii'.
 
 The...
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	| Forum: Ethnographic Weapons  28th June 2007, 02:10 AM | 
	
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				 Though at least in some of the Hindu ritual... 
 Though at least in some of the Hindu ritual texts, it is prescribed that the animals sacrificed be strangled or smothered to death -- so that the death is bloodless.
 
 But in practice, I have only...
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	| Forum: Ethnographic Weapons  12th June 2007, 02:53 AM | 
	
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				 Spiral 
 Spiral,
 
 Many thanks for a very informative article!
 
 You said this is based on an article you did for swordforum?  I couldn't find that one.
 
 In any case, a very well-written article which...
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	| Forum: Ethnographic Weapons  1st June 2007, 07:36 AM | 
	
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	| Forum: Ethnographic Weapons  25th May 2007, 06:23 AM | 
	
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				 In Hindi (and Nepali), the word is spelled as... 
 In Hindi (and Nepali), the word is spelled as kaTaar (see transcription key (http://www.ikrhs.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=285)), and seems to derive from (an unattested) Old Indo-Aryan/'Sanskrit' word...
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