Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s3.2
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c7.s3.2
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This and other figure in bronze are proof of the technique of casting metal by the *cire perdue* or lost-wax (*Madūchehhiṣṭa*) process, a technique having a continuity of abovt 5000 years on the Indian soil by which some of the greatest plastic art of India like the *Naṭarāja* bronzes and the Sultanganj copper Buddha were produced. Copper was the chief metal used in the Indus Valley for which the Vedic name was *Ayas* (अयस्). Iron was not known to them. They mixed ten percent tin with copper and wrought the alloy of bronze.