Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c20.s3.t9.6

v1.c20.s3.t9.6

Banerjee (1965: 180) quoted Manimekalai (19.2.107-9) and Perungadai (1.2. 40-44) of the early centuries of the Christian era admiring Greek carpenters, the jewellers of Magadha, goldsmiths of Pāṭaliputra, the metal workers from Marāṭṭa, metal-smiths of the Vatsa country (Kauśāmbi) and the black-smiths from Avanti: Avanti-K-Kollarum thus acknowledging the early Iron Age traditions of the Ujjain locality.