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INDIAS MAGICAL ANCIENT PILLAR
The Delhi Pillar Is a Genuine Out-of-Place Artifact
By Joseph Robert Jochmans, Lit.D.
In June, 1987, I took a tour group to China, Inner M ongolia,
Tibet , India, Nepal and Kashmir on a grand odyssey t o
many of the sacred places of Asia. While visiting India, one of
the highlights , for me, was to see what is called the
Delhi Pillar, a column of wrought iron that s tands in the
courtyard of Kutab Minar, in what is now the capital city of
New
Delhi. In the past the column has also been called the Singh St
ambh, the As hoka, and the Lion Pillar. It stands 23
feet 8 inches tall, averages 15 inches in diameter and weighs
approximately 6 tons. The real enigma is that it has not
rusted in the millennium and a half of its existence.
As I st ood in person next to t his very unassuming yet impress
ive column of black metal, I touched its surfaces and
felt like t he ast ronaut in2001: A Space Odesseyreaching out t
oward the alien black monolith found on the M oon.
For the Delhi Pillar is a genuine out-of-place artifact, a s
ilent tribute to advanced metallurgical skills made by unknown
artisans who posses sed a secret knowledge handed down to them
from a forgotten civilization. The Pillar containssuch a level of
sophistication that its inherent wisdom is today just beginning to
impact upon our present man-
ufacturing technology.
The Delhi Pillar is a solid shaft of wrought iron made up of
iron discs expert ly welded together in a fashion that t he
welding marks are hardly discernible. The iron for the Pillar is
believed to have originated from the Bihar region and may
have been manufactured there, for the fores t people of Bihar
are reputed to have known of advanced forms of the
art of forging iron and stee l in their clay furnaces for untold
thousands of years.
An inscription still plainly seen on the P illars base is an
epitaph to King Chandra Gupta II, who died in AD 413. So it is
known the Pillar is at least 1,600 years old, probably older.
The monument was first erect ed at Udayagirl near the
present-day city of Bhopal in central India. The Pillar first
stood in the t emple of Mutt ra capped with a Garuda, an
image of the bird incarnation of the god Vishnu. In the year
1052 Moslem invaders tore off the Garuda and took away
the Pillar, eventually re-erect ing it where it s tands t oday,
in what was t hen the courtyard of t he Quwwat-ul-Islam
Mosque, the very f irst mosque built in India. How long the
Pillar had been in the previous temple, however, is un-known.
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What t his suggests is a far older origin, older than the
inscriptions t hat must have been simply added onto it at a
later
dateolder perhaps by s everal thousands of years. This is borne
out by the fact t hat no other Indian iron works dating
to the fifth century can compare with the Delhi Pillar.
At Manud near Dhar are the remains of a second iron pillar
called the Dhar Column. It once s tood over fift y feet tall,
but now lies broken in three pieces with a total length of 43
feet 4 inches . It t oo was made with welded discs , and it
too has a high purity leve l of iron, though not anywhere as
high as the Delhi Pillar. The one difference is t he Dhar
Column is heavily corroded, its surface pitted, and there is
evidence it collapsed in about t he fourteenth century from
welding weaknesses compounded by advanced rust ing.
It is clear the Dhar Column was a fifth century attempt at
copying the far older Delhi Pillaran att empt that failed in
time, because it did not incorporate secrets of me tal
preservation unsuspected by the fifth century metallurgists,
nor
detected by them as they studied the Delhi Pillar model.
In 2007, R amamurthy Balasubrahmaniam, a profes sor of met
allurgical engineering at t he Indian Ins titute of
Technology at K anpur, announced the development of a new t ype
of corrosion-res istant iron. It is called ductile phos-
phorus iron, and commercially it will prove to be highly benef
icial for const ruction engineers who use iron supports in
damp or submerged environments s uch as bridges , and especially
encased in wet concrete. So far tes t s amples ,
produced by ITT Kanpur, submersed in acidic solution have
remained corrosion-f ree compared with commercially
available s teel tes t controls which quickly began forming rust
when subject ed to the same solution. Other test s am-
ples and similar controls showed the same results when embedded
in simulated concrete solution.
What is amazing is that Balasubrahmaniam admits that his
pioneering development of t he new iron is based solely on
his personal research into the mys tery of the Delhi Pillar. The
Times of India, in its April 24, 2004-edition that f irstannounced
the profes sors initial work, headlined their art icle: Hist ory
Comes to the Aid of Chemist ry in Beating
Rust . The profes sor himself stated, There is an exciting
future in developing phosphorus irons. The beacon of light
shining the way to the future is t he Delhi Iron Pillar, with
its test ed proof of corrosive resistance.
As early as 1990, Balasubrahmaniam f ocused his at tention
primarily on the high purity of the iron used in the
monument, t he high phosphorus content and relative absence of
sulfur and magnes ium in the metal, the composition
of its grain st ructure, and a proces s called passivity
enhancement as all having been somehow utilized in its pro-
duction. H e also, at f irst, suspect ed that t here may have
been an initial exposure t o an alkaline and ammoniacal appli-
cation, as well as other surface coatings provided after the
metals manufacture.
Balasubrahmaniam believes the Pillar is a living example of an
object made by the powder metallurgical route. This
conclusion came aft er a microprobe analysis revealed that its
met al composition of copper, nickel, manganese and
chromium was uniform through several millimeters into t he
samples from the surface. I n fact, the consis tency is
such that the professor referred to the inherent materials as
nano-powder. H e likewise noted that t he metals mi-
crostructure s hows a wide variety of complexities , proving the
iron was obtained by direct ion reduction process rather
than cast ing. The pillar is a solid body with mechanical st
rengths throughout.
Careful analysis has shown that 40- to 50-lbs. lumps of iron
served as t he raw material used in the production pro-
ces s. Res earch has indicated that the pillar was manufactured
with the pillar in a horizontal position, and the addition
of t he lumps was from the side. Balasubrahmaniam commented
further, This is one aspect t hat is not well
understood (from a leading-edge metallurgical perspective) and
may be called a mys tery. This is t he unknown met hod
by which the iron lumps were forged to produce the mass ive
six-ton structure.
The profes sor soon concentrated his ongoing st udies on the
monuments high phosphorus content, and it was in this
regard that he made his breakthrough discoveries . The presence
of phosphorus, he concluded, is crucial to the
corrosion resist ance. He also surmised that the original ore
must have been carefully chosen so that a relatively
high amount of phosphorus would result in the ext racted metal.
The enigma is just where s uch a specialized ore
would have originated.
However, the main question that remains unanswered is, if the
chemical composition and processing inherent in the
Delhi Pillar is so sophist icated that modern metallurgists are
just now discovering its secret propertiesand likewise
are only beginning today to find ways of applying itfrom where
did the metal workers of a millennium-and-ahalf ago or
older acquire this same knowledge? This is indicative of a form
of t echnology that had to have been the result of
many centuries of experimentation by trial and error. Yet we do
not f ind evidence of such developmental stages
having existed at any point in the f ift h century, or before or
since. Clearly, this was a s pecial knowledge that had to
have been inherited from a much older but forgotten civilization
long lost to recognized hist ory. In our modern civilizat ion
today, we are only treading the same pathways of discovery which
someone else in dim antiquity t raveled long ago.
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