Iron in Ancient India c6.s8.24

c6.s8.24

Besides the above there are several old iron guns at Bishnupur in Bengal and several inscribed Assam guns of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have been described by Mr. Rakhaldas Banerji.⁴ On one of these Assam guns there is a Persian inscription "taiyār shud" meaning "was manufactured" in contrast with "rekhta shud" or "was cast," the latter inscription occurring, according to Prof. Jadu Nath Sircar, on many other guns, [Figure: Iron Gun at Murshidābād. (Photograph by Johnston and Hoffmann, Calcutta.)]