Copper in Ancient India c6.s3.1

c6.s3.1

In the Epic Age the knowledge of copper had much advanced and we find copper designated by its modern name tāmra which occurs in the two Epics. The law-giver Manu in his Institutes gives directions for the purification of copper utensils.² Brass and bronze vessels are also referred to in the same passage. Copper finds a place amongst the six metals in the medical work of Sushruta. The other medical treatise Charaka Samhitā composed at the same time mentions brass besides copper and bronze.