Mahabharata date. Was: Iron Age in India

Swaminathan Madhuresan smadhuresan at YAHOO.COM
Mon Sep 18 14:25:01 UTC 2000


--- "Anand M. Sharan" <asharan at ENGR.MUN.CA> wrote:
>  Fitzgerald mentions about the process used in making
> steel, a high quality steel in the descriptions of Mahabharat .
> Fitzgerald's finding appears very reasonable to me .

 But his JAOS article refers nowhere near a date of 2000 BC!
 The low time limit of the MBh is 4th century AD.




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