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"inscription": "Help [comes] from God, and Victory is imminent.",
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"title": "Art and Stories from Mughal India",
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"title": "Martial Art of India",
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"description": "This long curved sword and scabbard are of the kind used and worn by Mughal nobility, as seen often in paintings. The openwork hilt is a characteristic of swords from the southern Indian region known as the Deccan. By the end of the 1500s, the Mughals began making regular incursions into the Deccan as they attempted to expand their empire, increasing the exchange of art forms.
Repeated four times, twice on one side of the blade and twice on the other in gold inlay, is the same line from the Qur'an 61:13: \u201cHelp [comes] from God, and Victory is imminent.\u201d This is a popular inscription on daggers, banners, and other instruments of war, as it reassures the combatants that God is on their side, and therefore they can in good faith expect a speedy victory if they fight valiantly.",
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"citation": "\u201cPart II. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1930.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 18, no. 2, 1931, pp. 1\u2013128.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 33",
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