Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.111

c12.111

East of the Indus, Rajputana is most likely to have provided the copper and probably the lead (from Ajmer) used by the Harappā metal-smiths, and from this region, too, steatite, slate, jasper, bloodstone, green chalcedony, and other stones for beads would have come. The Dekkan is likely to have provided amethysts, and a rare stone, amazonite, must have come from the Nilgiri Hills or, less probably, from Kashmir. Kashmir and the Himalayan forests would have provided deodar wood, probably floated down the rivers, as well as the substance *silajit*, used in folk-medicine, and the horns of deer, also believed to have medicinal properties. And perhaps from beyond the mountains, in the Pamirs, East Turkestan, or even Tibet or Burma, came jadeite.