Glaive word "glaive" has historically been given to several very different types of weapons. Glaive A glaive (or glave) is a European polearm, consisting of a single-edged blade on the end of a pole. It is similar to the Japanese naginata, the Chinese guandao and pudao, Russian sovnya and Siberian . Typically, the blade is around long, on the end of a pole long, and the blade is affixed in a socket-shaft configuration similar to an axe head, rather than having a tang like a sword or naginata. Occasionally, glaive blades were created with a small hook on the reverse side
Sujata and seven types of wives the next). They are: The Buddha then states that the following four types are heading for happiness – in this world or the next. A common feature of each of these wives is that they are also imbued with “long term self-control”. They are: After speaking these things, Sujata was deeply moved by Buddha's words. Upon being asked which wife she was to be, she answered: "I am to be the last of the wives, the slave-wife to my husband." It may be argued that in the last case, the Buddha was not praising the qualities of the husband's abuse.