Domain XVII · ARMS & ARMOUR
Arms & Armour
اسلحہ
The edge is ornament · Koftgari & wootz steel
Rootsthe tradition
Koftgari gold inlaid into hatched steel, wootz watering raised by etching, the talwar's disc pommel, the katar's transverse grip, quilted zirah bagtar, chiselled hilt quillons.
The ideawhat it values
A weapon is judged by the smith who forges it and again by the court that receives it. Gold laid into cut steel is not a coating but a bond, hammered into a hatched surface until it holds. The temptation is to read the decoration as vanity, when it is often the reason the object survived at all.
Plateswhat the record looks like
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The groundin the Atlas
The tree names 35 topics here, under Military & Administration. A branch carries more than one domain, so read it as the ground rather than the boundary.