Question
Iron pillar at Mehrauli

Answer

  • There is an iron pillar at Mehrauli near Delhi.
  • It has not rusted even in the course of the last fifteen hundred years. It is an excellent specimen of the metallurgical skill of the ancient Indian people.
  • The inscription on the pillar bears the names of a king called ‘Chandra’. It is on this basis that the iron pillar is assumed to be of the period of Chandragupta II.

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