Iron in Ancient India c10.7

c10.7

This specimen of cast iron is unique so far as India is concerned, as specimens of wrought iron alone are abundant in India. No exact date can be assigned to King Bhabachandra. His name has passed current in Bengali fable as a foolish king having a foolish minister named Habachandra. The ruins of Bhabachandra-pāt are very old and it is supposed that it was the capital of a dynasty of Hindu kings before the Mahomedan conquest. The specimen may be dated from the eighth to the tenth century A.D.