Dictionary: Asi (Mahabharata)
Asi (Mahabharata) (Hindi: असि) appears as a personification of the first weapon ever created according to Hindu epics. ‘Asi’ means ‘sword’. A legend concerning Asi appears in the Shantiparva section of Mahabharata. In Rigvedic Sanskrit Asi is still used as a term for a kind of sacrificial dagger or knife. The common term for sword in Classical Sanskrit is and khanda) in Hindi. Frame narrative Out of curiosity Nakula, the fourth son of Pandu and the master of swordsmanship questioned the Kuru Grandsire Bhishma on his arrow death bed as to which was the best weapon in all kinds of fighting....