Copper in Ancient India c9.14

c9.14

Bronze continues to be designated as *Kāmsya* in Amarkosha’s lexicon, though the latter stands for bell-metal also. Both brass and bronze came to be regarded as alloys by the thirteenth century as we find that the author of *Rasaratna-samuchchaya* while classifying metals writes that “brass, bronze and *Vartalauha* are three alloys.”