i was just thinking i need to get in contact with a bladesmith....

Plenty of bladesmiths in India, mainly in Punjab, still make these blades.

@@Khadgadhara that's what i was hoping for

Was not expecting Skall here Won't it be interesting if someone were to make a reproduction and torture test it?

Make a replica

KAAVEEER--. GOD. + ALMIGHTY 🙏🙏🙏

The etymology of Talwar is incorrect. It comes from Sanskrit 'Tarvaari'.

@@kanhaibhatt913 and what does Tarvari mean Sir?

@@revantbhalla2457 one edged sword according to wikipedia

@@fscker what is the etymology?

Hi,my fellow Indian!

Quite a meaty backlog indeed, it can take some time to work in the girth of knowledge

I have no clue which matt videos are old or new, been watching the chanel for years and love to listen to stuff sort of like a podcast when i am in my workshop fixing something and just let the algorythm play the next video xD

@@sgtrosmarin5464 old, young, what matters are the puns

Noice

A short one 😂😂 ill take my estoc

It’s also giving me some cinquedea vibes

TulGha

I was thinking the same

Tulghator!🐊

"Oh my friend, you are mistaken. This is not a tulwar. But you will see that THIS is a tulwar!"

Kashmir has an incredible history of cottage industry gun manufacturing at all levels of quality. Unfortunately due to the strife and competing claims on the region, the arms making shops have been heavily limited on how much they can produce and sell, and many that are generations old have straight up gone out of business.

@@jamesm1that is the story across the country. Thank the British who wanted a disarmed population in the occupied lands so that the native population will not have the wherewithal to kick them out or even rise up, and the post colonial government which has followed the same policy because of the perils that firearms in the hands of hotheads (which we have by the millions) will cause. We would have at least 10x more gun violence than USA if we had a similar, liberal firearms policy. And the Kashmir valley is the best example of that.

Aight bro gib link!

​@@rajath275saw a video from Bihar of this year's holi festival. People with guns started tussling around while holding rifles nd started shooting them while a woman nd a kid was literally running around. The video was being filmed by couple of guys above on the terrace and literally few minutes later a dude above who was right next to the camera guy caught a stray bullet. I don't think he survived. A dozen drunk men right next to each other literally grabbing each other's loaded weapons go unharmed but the dude on the sidelines gets shot. This is why I support keeping firearms out of people's hands. You don't want that sht in India!

​@@jamesm1Google 'Gadia Lohaar' There are many communities. And Kashmir is not contested territory. Just the last Indian territory suffering British meddling.

And after that: test cutting!!! 😛👏🎉

That goes along with Shad's post about whether there were spring steel weaps in ancient times. And how!

​@@texasbeast239Spring tempering was a method of heat treatment in Han dynasty swords before they moved to differential hardening.

It's a crowd control weapon used as a last resort, not for use in formation. Worn as a "waist-band", when you are surrounded, you whip it out and keep slashing around. Have heard anecdotal stories of it being used by my father's friend. Was able to keep away almost a dozen men.

A sword like this would look sick with the gravity magic rune(s) engraved on it

Indiascourge Radahn

Hi folks, General Radahn, Schola Caelidtoria here!

*Matt proceeds to reenter the atmosphere as a meteorite*

"Hello there!"

Not fear factor a perfect aspect factor

On side note there is a very old special iron column in Delhi that does not have any rust its a mystery how its so pure seeing as it was made only 300 years after Rome invaded Brittan .India had an ancient tradition of making good steel they invented Wootz steel made in crucibles the secrets of which have been lost to time those were the swords the Europeans wanted ..Thanks Scholar for loving Indian weapons and stopping the myth that Japanese and European swords were the best

@@braddbradd5671 🙏🙏🙏

Ceremonial purposes!

Virgin guillotine user vs Chad krumphaw executioner

For when he has execute a popular rogue and might have to fight for his life afterwards.

Oh yeah indian history is a bit shadowed by Japanese katanas and Chinese dragons. Although, both had strong relations with India, Kung Fu is said to be inspired by a martial art that an indian called Bodhidharma brought into China, note I'm not saying china or Japan did not have indigenous martial arts. Another interesting fact, some Japanese gods are indian gods that made their way to the island. And that's other than Buddhism and Buddha. Try looking up odd compass

We had warring periods,followed by unified empire,warring periods,unified,warring,unified 😂😂 we had more than 500 kingdoms within "modern India".

@@thisnthat7760 Yeah, I meant that area has quite interesting history and played a big part in the world that's not recognised.

@@JustIn-mu3nl Indeed it is.

This are just the surface 😂😂

Pull an Indiana Jones and shoot him.

Except, this thing was actually used regularly in medieval Indian warfare, how cool is that

Rajputs have more big Tegas 😂 you should see them , they are visible threat,

@@Govind_rana500 Tegha Is A Rajput Sword ! 😒

There is a video of that on the channel

@@barrysingh2872 Almost. The cleaning vids Matt posted a couple years ago were of swords that were in a little bit better condition.

Yes I've seen that sword.. 42kg sword of Khandoba (Jejuri) .. It was used for sacrifice perposes..

"Call me a cab boy, and be quick about it...I'm a heavy tipper".

Yeah, the Bagua Dai Dao, I think.

Probably the inaction of other peopel is maybe coz its generational site of public execution now not very attention seeking.

Incredible 😮

@@rage8673 I think the place was where the car accident that sparked the whole thing happened, although Im not sure - I was getting all this from my driver. But it was near an industrial area in literally the middle of nowhere,. The families were going back and forth between a few big cars, negotiating (or so I was told) - i believe the family has the last say on sentences like these and they can use it to extort money. I got the impression the victim of the execution was the son of a wealthy family and was doing stupid things with an expensive powerful sportscar, which is how it all happened. The thing is, once the negotiating ended it was all over at lightning speed. Thats the bit that really struck me. it was really matter of fact, like it was normal.

That's kinda horrible,are you Saudi arabian?

@@gaminghunt5837 No. And i agree with you.

Pause for a change of underwear

That's still gives me chills

That was a different Sword!!

Not an expert but maybe for optional two handed techniques, Or one nasty pommel strike.

I believe that he has a couple videos on that

Primarily to grip them two handed occasionally.

​@@scholagladiatoriaplease do trsning methodologies for talear and sabers

never politically. still isn't, using the subcontinent as a whole

@@anonymouslyopinionated656 patent imperialist bullshit, look up a map of the mauryan dynasty, it was pretty much all of India. the cultural divisions that exist today are relatively recent, in the grand scheme of indian history, and were exacerbated by the British.

The Tughluks and Mughuls could also certainly be said to have unified India, but unity was not the usual historical condition.

@@walterhard9768 I don't think the mughals ever controlled the entire subcontinent, they held power mainly in what is now Pakistan and the Punjab if I recall. also while India wasn't unified politically at most points, it's important to recognize that they did have at least some sense of unified identity going back as far as the vedic period. notably the subcontinent as a whole was always referred to as bharat, as opposed to the various kingdoms and republics that existed within said subcontinent throughout time. it's important to remember that india as a concept existed before the British arrived just as much as its important to recognize that India wasn't and is culturally homogeneous.

The term used is Bharata Varsha, Varsha meaning continent. So continent of Bharata. Also called Jambu Dweepa. There were of course further subdivisions. Arya Varta - Land of the Aryans - Mostly flat plain land, Between the Himalayas and Vindhyas, with the Indus and Brahmaputra basins forming the western and eastern borders. From Kashmir/Gilgit-Baltistan to northern Maharashtra and from Sindh to Assam. Dakshina patha - Deccan plateau. Most of Maharashtra, Karnataka and Telengana, with parts of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Andhra - Telugu speaking coastal area. Dravida - Tamil lands. Modern day Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Sri Lanka, Maldives and Nepal was also part of this continent. Some areas outside these were also considered part of India at some points in history, Like parts of modern Afghanistan like the kingdoms of Kabul and Zabul as well as much of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Swat valley, when these were primarily inhabited by Dards and not Pashtuns. There was also the Tarim basin in modern day southern Xinjiang, inhabited by Indo-Scythian Buddhists then. There's also the Garuda valley in Tibet, inhabited by a group of Indo-Aryans, as well as Indonesia, which was also considered to be part of India.

And his father popularised the term Deg Teg Fateh

That wide, relatively thin blade is probably optimal to cut someone in tight quarters.