An Ivory-Hilted Dagger (Peshkabz) With Silver-Mounted Scabbard, India, 18th-19th century

the curved watered-steel blade with central ridge, double-edged towards the swelled tip, decorated at the forte with gold-overlaid naturalistic flowers with vase motif, the flat back edge with stylised palmette and two lobed cartouches containing inscriptions, ivory hilt in two sections, leather-covered wood scabbard with applied silver lock and chape, carved throughout with rosettes, foliate and fishscale designs with bud form terminal 

Overall good condition. scabbard is knocked and worn slightly. some leather has been lost showing the wood underneath. bud finial is also indented, due to age. ivory hilt has some cracks and is stained. gold pommel on hilt damaged and gold inlay on hilt has suffered from rubbings , as viewed.
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inscriptions
on the back of the blade to the forte:
qabzah-ye khanjar jahangir ast garcheh yak-mosht ostokhan bashad
'The hilt of [this] dagger conquers the world even though it is [made of] a handful of bones.'