[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c24.s2.3 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c24.s2.3 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c24.s2.3 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c24.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c24.s2.3) Six sites, all Uttar Pradesh, have produced them: PARIYAR has yielded a few, BITHUR and RAJPUR PARSU six and other sites one each. The harpoon from BISAULI, at present in the Bharat Kala Bhawan, Varanasi, 43 cm long, has a strong medial rib and a long tapering blade. The middle part has three pairs of incurved and pointed bards. At the junction of the barbed portion with the tang there is a pair of knobs of which one is perforated. A cord was inserted in this perforation, also called 'eye', to tie it to the shaft. Originally the weapon was cast but there was some hammering at the later stage. Lal's examination of one from SARTHAULI shows that it is possible that the barbs were cut out from the blade by chiselling and then trimmed up with a file, though they might as well have been cast as barbs and then sharpened by filing. A hook-barbed harpoon made in a mould, in the Horniman Museum, is of a fine massive casting of excellent workmanship (Gordon, 1958, p. 137). Although most of the harpoons so far discovered fall within the general category yet there is some technical difference between those from BISAULI and SARTHAULI: in the Sarthauli specimen the blade is not a well-developed entity and is only 7·5 cm long out of a 28 cm total length of the implement, its barbs being flat; - [Previous: v1.c24.s2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c24.s2.2) - [Next: v1.c24.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c24.s2.4) - [Up: v1.c24.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c24.s2) ## Linked texts (1) - [Sarthauli](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.sarthauli) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c24.s2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c24.s2.3) · Pramāṇa