Iron in Ancient India c6.s5.5

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At Puri iron beams have been much more extensively used and ore of larger dimensions. In the Gunduchibārī or Garden Temple at Puri, where the images of Jaggernāth and his brother Balarām and sister Subhadrā are taken after the car festival in June or July for ten days, as many as 239 iron beams ranging up to 17 feet long and up to 6 by 4 or 5 by 6 inches section have been counted. We give a list of these iron beams prepared by Mr. N. C. R. Chaudhuri, the District Engineer at Puri, and quoted by Mr. H. G. Graves.²