Asi (Mahabharata)

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Asi (Sanskrit: असि, romanized: Asi) appears as a personification of the first weapon ever created according to Hindu epics. 'Asi' means 'sword'. A legend concerning Asi appears in the Shanti Parva book of the Mahabharata.^[1] In Rigvedic Sanskrit, Asi is still used as a term for a kind of sacrificial dagger or knife.^[2]