Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s2.30
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c6.s2.30
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Besides the furnaces and accessories so graphically described in Chapter XV, certain other devices varying from area to area also appear to have been used in Indian metallurgy. One such was the use of the *Panchakki* (water-mill) in the crushing of ore by the manufacturers of Kumaon and Garhwal. According to J.D. Herbert and J. Manson ‘in reducing the ore to fragments, the Dhunpoor miners employ the *Panchakki* or water-mill. When water is present no better plan can be devised.’⁴⁶