Dainik Pudhari furnishes evidence to prove the authenticity of Shivaji's wagh nakh weapon brought from London

Dainik Pudhari, a vernacular daily based out of Maharashtra, debunked the canards raised over the credibility of the ‘wagh nakh’, a tiger claw-shaped weapon of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, which he had famously used to kill Bijapur sultan Afzal Khan in 1659. The museum, according to Dr Jadhav, had confirmed the originality of the weapon and had also sent two photographs- one of the swords used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and the other one of the ‘wagh nakh’, the tiger-clawed weapon. NCP, Shiv Sena question the authenticity of the weapons Earlier, on October 1, NCP’s Sharad Pawar was seen trusting Indrajit Sawant, a Marathi historian who claimed that the tiger-claw weapon possessed by the museum is not the tiger-claw weapon that was used by Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to kill Afzal Khan. The most significant use of the wagh nakh in history comes from the incident when Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj killed Afzal Khan after the latter deceptively launched an attack on Maharaj.