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Even though no glass objects have been recovered from Indus valley areas, in ancient Indian literature there are references to glass and coloured glass articles which give evidence to the manufacture of glass and its use in India as early as 800 B.C. (MV. VIII.3; Cu. V. IX.1; Rām. II 90.27; ÁS II.11). Archaeological evidences also prove that glass beads, bangles, jars, tiles etc. were made from 6th or 5th century B.C. onwards. Most of the glass objects were coloured.