Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c26.s5.9

v1.c26.s5.9

Thus it is clear that by the seventh century AD India had well-established traditions in brass-making. (We would provide some analytical data in our chapter 20). Hiuen-Tsang recorded the tradition of the alchemist Nāgārjuna having made four brass statues of Buddha for the Sātavāhana empire which had fallen short of gold; we would establish in our Vol. II chapter 8 that the event had taken place in the second century AD.