Which Indian king had heavy sword?

King Maharana Pratap have wielded two swords each weighing at 25 kg each. As for now these are the two heaviest swords ever existed. These two swords are being kept in a museum in India for safekeeping. According to historians, these swords were used to fight with Mughals in the Battle of Haldighati.
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Who has the heaviest sword in Indian history?

Which warrior has heaviest sword? 1. The 'mountain man': Maharana Pratap is revered as one of the strongest warriors India has ever seen. Standing at 7 feet 5 inches, he would carry a 80-kilogram spear and two swords weighing around 208 kilograms in total.
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What is the most powerful sword in Indian history?

The khanda (Sanskrit: खड्ग) is a double-edge straight sword originating from the Indian subcontinent. The Maratha warrior clans venerated the khanda as a weapon of great prestige. It is often featured in religious iconography, theatre and art depicting the ancient history of India.
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How heavy was Rana Pratap's sword?

The Rajput king Maharana Pratap used to carry two swords which weighed nearly 25 kilos each. It is said that he would offer one sword to his enemy before a fight, if he was unarmed. Currently, the swords are placed in the Maharana Pratap museum in Udaipur, Rajasthan.
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What is the most weighted sword in history?

The Zweihänder ascribed to him is, as of 2008, on display in the Fries Museum. It has a length of 213 cm (84 in) and a mass/weight of about 6.6 kg (15 lb).
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A Sword Dance Performed before the King and Queen in India (1912)



What is the most brutal sword?

The claymore was a deadly weapon and a devastating tool on the battlefield. With their average length falling to around 130cm, the claymore offered a mid-ranged combat style and the combined length, dual handed wielding, and weight meant that the claymore could easily sever limbs or even decapitate with a single blow.
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What is the deadliest sword in history?

Winner- The Miao Dao, China

Incredibly, and against all odds, this sword was so popular with Chinese warriors that some even took the sword into battle during WWII! While it may have been no match for modern munitions of the day, the sword is deadly close-up, as Japanese soldiers learned at a high cost.
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How much did Mughal Akbar sword weigh?

Carried 360 Kgs Of Weight

He carried 360 kg of weight, including a spear weighing around 80 kg, two swords weighing 208 kg and armour of nearly 72 kg.
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Who wielded the biggest sword in history?

The largest sword in the history of this model measured 2.24 meters and weighing about 10 kilos. The Claymore was used by a Scottish giant whose name and origin is unknown, although it is believed that this person belonged to the Clan Maxwell. One of the best known is perhaps Claymore sword of William Wallace.
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How much did a Spartan sword weigh?

It was a rather light weapon, with a weight around 450–900 g (0.99–1.98 lb). It was generally hung from a baldric under the left arm.
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Which is the deadliest sword in India?

The urumi will cut you.

But the Indian martial art of Kalaripayattu has both of them beat with the urumi, a sword that acts like a whip. The urumi hasn't regularly been used as an actual weapon for generations, but even as a demonstration weapon, it is still incredibly dangerous. Especially to the user.
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Who is more powerful than Brahmastra?

It is thought that the Brahmashirsha astra is the evolution of the Brahmastra and is a secret infallible weapon creates by Lord Brahma 4 times stronger than Brahmastra. In the epic Mahabharata, it is said that the weapon manifest with the four heads of Lord Brahma as its tip.
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Who had the best sword in history?

Top 5 Famous and Deadly Swords
  • #5 Napoleon's Sword: In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte became the military and political leader of France after staging a coup d'état. Five years later the French Senate proclaimed him emperor. ...
  • #4 The Sword of Mercy:
  • #3 Zulfiqar:
  • #2 Honjo Masamune.
  • #1 Joyeuse.
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Who is the best swordsman in Indian history?

Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

The founder of the Maratha dynasty in India, Chatrapati Shivaji is regarded as one of the most valiant warriors who dared to stand up against the mighty Mughals, and defeated them several times.
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What is India most famous sword?

List of Indian swords
  • Nandaka (sword)
  • Moplah (sword)
  • Pata (sword)
  • Pesh-kabz (knife)
  • Pichangatti (knife)
  • Ram-dao (sword)
  • Talwar (sword)
  • Urumi (sword)
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How much does Zulfiqar sword weigh?

Height of Pendent is 75 mm (approx.), width is 18 mm (approx.) & Chain Length is 260 mm and Weight is 20 gm.
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Which king had a famous sword?

Excalibur, in Arthurian legend, King Arthur's sword. As a boy, Arthur alone was able to draw the sword out of a stone in which it had been magically fixed.
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Who was the most feared swordsman?

1. Miyamoto Musashi—Japan's Sword Saint. Miyamoto Musashi in the Duelling Hall. The life of Japanese samurai Miyamoto Musashi is obscured by myth and legend, but this “sword saint” reportedly survived 60 duels—the first of which was fought when he was just 13 years old.
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Who was the best sword fighter?

History's Greatest Sword Fighters
  • Sasaki Kojiro. The problem about warriors that lived in the 16th century is that much of what is reported about them is now subject to mythology. ...
  • Fiore dei Liberi. ...
  • Sigmund Ringeck. ...
  • Johannes Liechtenauer. ...
  • Miyamoto Musashi. ...
  • Ralph Faulkner.
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What was Akbar's height?

Stocky and not more than 5ft 7in tall, with a lucky wart on the left side of his nose, Akbar was masterful, physically tough and energetic.
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Who was the tallest Mughal king?

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (25 October 1542 – 27 October 1605), popularly known as Akbar the Great (Persian: اکبر اعظم Persian pronunciation: [akbarɪ azam]), and also as Akbar I (Persian pronunciation: [akbar]), was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.
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Who was the fastest swordsman?

Miyamoto Musashi (宮本 武蔵, c. 1584 – 13 June 1645), also known as Shinmen Takezō, Miyamoto Bennosuke or, by his Buddhist name, Niten Dōraku, was a Japanese swordsman, philosopher, strategist, writer and rōnin, who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 ...
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Which is the No 1 sword in the world?

1. Excalibur: The Most Famous Legendary Sword.
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What is the most cursed sword?

The Muramasa is a Japanese Katana sword known as cursed and demonic. It is a real historical sword surrounded by terrifying legends and stories.
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