Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c28.s12.3

v1.c28.s12.3

The iconoclasts burnt the books but could not destroy knowledge, destroyed and melted the icons but could not annihilate the arts and science of the icon-making tradition which, as we have said, persisted well beyond AD 1200. Six centuries later came another group of invaders who were more enlightened and sufficiently knowledgeable to realise that the pre-modern traditions in India related to minerals and metals had indeed been creditable.