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Sword

तलवार · talwār

Also called: Talwar · Blade sign

Where on the hand: Anywhere on the palm; the sources define it by form rather than position.

What it looks like: Parallel lines running very close together, forming a long narrow blade shape.

A martial and decisive capability sign. Talwār appears in the standard Samudrik chinha list alongside dhanush (bow), gadā (mace) and hal (plough).

On each mount

**Any mount** — no mount table exists; the sword's reading attaches to the sign.
**Mars, by association** — the martial mounts are the natural home of the martial chinha, though the sources do not specify.
**Compare the square on Mars** — Saint-Germain's square there “averts injury by blade or sword,” the only other place a blade appears in the corpus.

On each line

**Not a line mark** — the sword is a free-standing figure of closely parallel lines.
**Distinguish from sister lines** — two lines running parallel beside a major line are a sister line, the repair mark, not a sword.
**Distinguish from vertical mount lines** — several close verticals on a mount belong to the vertical-lines table.

Where it is positive

**Everywhere it occurs** — the sword has no negative reading in the sources.
**Martial and decisive capability** — the standing reading.
**With the other royal chinha** — bow, mace and plough carry the same martial and royal register.

Read with care: RECONCILED. 'The sword has no negative reading in the sources' is contradicted by four other entries here and by the 32-sign list: on the Sun mount (Vidhya Sthan) the khaḍga is read as INAUSPICIOUS — struggle and trouble. Position decides, as with most symbols.

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