South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.6

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³ The colossal copper figure of Buddha discovered in Sultangung, Behar, was seven feet high and weighed nearly 27 maunds and has been attributed to the 5th century A.D., vide "Manufacture of copper in Ancient India" by Professor Panchanon Neogy, M.A., read before the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Calcutta, 9th April 1914.