Iron in Ancient India c5.5

c5.5

² Manu's age does not seem to have been fixed definitely. Many authorities place Manu's Institutes before the Epics, but Macdonell says, "it (Manu's Institutes) is closely connected with the Mahābhārat of which three volumes alone (III, XII, XVI) contain as many as 260 of its 2684 slokas. It probably assumed