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Marble-Like Chûnnam in the 18Th- and 19Th-Century Madras Presidency ARTICLES IJHS | VOL 55.1 | MARCH 2020 Marble-like chûnnam in the 18th- and 19th-century Madras Presidency Anantanarayanan Raman∗ Charles Sturt University, PO Box 883, Orange, NSW 2800, Australia. (Received 25 September 2019; revised 07 November 2019) Abstract Lime (calcined limestone), referred as çûnam and çûṇṇam (‘chûnnam’) was used in the Indian subconti- nent for ages. In the Tamizh country, lime was referred as çûṇṇāmpu. The nature and quality chûnnam used in the Madras presidency are formally recorded in various published reports by the British either living in or visiting Madras from the 18th century. All of them consistently remark that the quality of chûnnam used in building human residences and other buildings was of superior quality than that used for the same purpose elsewhere in India. The limestone for making chûnnam was extracted from (i) inland quarries and (ii) beached seashells. The latter was deemed of superior quality. In the Tamizh country in particular, a few other biological materials were added to lime mortar to achieve quicker and better hardening. In the Madras presidency, builders and bricklayers, used to add jaggery solution, egg albumin, clarified butter, and freshly curdled yoghurt, and talc schist (balapong) to the lime mortar.Many of the contemporary construction engineers and architects are presently loudly talking on the validity and usefulness of using lime mortar, embellished with plant fibres and plant extracts, supplemented by traditional practice of grinding. Key words: Çûṇṇāmbu, Jaggery, John Smith, Kaḍukkāi, Limestone Mortar, Magnesite, Portland Cement, Seashells, Vegetable Material. 1 Introduction mortar instead of a mixer, for better compres- sive strength and long-lasting life. We found The chief engineer of the Public Works Department of that structures built with lime mortar achieved Government of Tamil Nadu, referring to the restoration more strength as they grew older, compared to of an iconic building in Madras city — the Hūmayūn Ma- concrete buildings that gained strength only up hal (Figure 1) remarked in the Hindu dated 21 September to 50–60 years. 20191 as: Mohammed Ali Khan Wallajah (1717–1795), the Nawab We are planning to use bulls to churn lime ruling this part of southern India, desired to build a per- DOI: 10.16943/ijhs/2020/v55i1/152340 manent, palatial residence in Chepauk (coastal segment *Email: araman@csu.edu.au, anant@raman.id.au of Triplicane) and built the Chepauk Palace in 1768. This 1(https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/engineers-hit- palace complex consisted of two mahal-s: the Kālsā Ma- rewind-for-heritage-revamp-Humayun-mahal-resto-ration-to-see- revival-of-traditional-construction-techniques/article29472801.ece, hal and the Hûmayûn Mahal (Figure 1). This palace com- accessed 21 September 2019). plex spread over 117 acres, stretching from the Cooum IJHS | VOL 55.1 | MARCH 2020 ARTICLES versity of Madras çûṇṇāmpu is derived from çûṇṇā (Prākrit). It is possible that the word çûṇṇāmpu was in use before the 12th cen- tury. Lime was used in the Tamizh country in the first millennium, but maybe with another name.5 The Mandagapattu cave temple inscription of Mahén- dra Varmā I (c. 7th century CE) articulates that the rock- cut shrine made in Madagapattu (12° 6ʹ N, 79° 27ʹ E, Villupuram District) by King Vicitraciŧa for the Hindu Divine Trinity was constructed without bricks, timber, metal, and mortar. This articulation confirms that the Figure 1 The Chepauk Palace complex. The Hûmayûn people in Tamizh country of the 7th century knew and Mahal with its tower with four minarets is vis- built temples and shrines using brick, timber, metal, and ible in the background, c. 1905 (Source: Cour- mortar (Ramaswami 1971, Balaji 2017). tesy of Special Collections, University of Hous- Large city-like congregations of Harappa (c. 2600 BCE) ton Libraries).2 included sophisticated sanitation networks (Lal 1997). The mortars used in constructing those networks were of River in the north to the Pycrofts Road (presently Bharati mud paste. They also seem to have known and made use Salai) in the south. Parts of Hûmayûn Mahal were re- of vajralépa. Varāhamihira (6th century CE) explains va- 6 stored by Robert Fellowes Chisholm (1840–1915, Consult- jralépa in Bṛhtsamhitā as an adamantine glue made as ing Architect to the Government of Madras) in the mid- a composite paste, prepared by grinding various biolog- 19th century (Srinivasachari 1939). ical and mineral substances. It included resinous secre- tions of plants, e.g., Commiphora wightii ([= C. mukul], Lime (CaO, Ca[OH]2, calcined limestone, calcite- including sedimentary rock), referred as çûnam and Bursearceae) and of animals, e.g., Kerria lacca (Insecta: çûṇṇam (hereafter spelt ‘chûnnam’) was used in the Kerridae) in addition to metals, such as mercury (Sastri Indian subcontinent for ages. In the Tamizh country, and Bhat 1946). Vajralépa was used primarily in tem- 7 lime was referred as çûṇṇāmpu. According to the ples and palaces, implying that it was affordable to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary chûnnam is a ‘cement’ wealthy. To fix the idol onto the pedestal, vajralépa was or ‘plaster’ used in India, usually highly polished and applied at the installation points (brahmasthāna-s) in 3 decorated with paintings . Thomas Lehmann (Abteilung Pradesh and inland Telengana, and parts of Chhattisgarh) in the 12th Neusprachliche Südasienstudien—Tamil, Süd-Asien- century. 5 Institut, Universität Heidelberg) explained the etymology The term suŧai was used to imply lime (CaCO3) and lime mor- tar in the Tamizh country before the 12th century. Çankam- of çûṇṇāmpu as follows (email, 13 August 2019): period poetry, e.g., Aka-nānūru, Pura-nānūru, Nédunalvādai (1st century BCE—2nd century CE) use the word suŧai indicating that The word çûṇṇāmpu is first attested in the the Tamizh people knew of CaCO3 and CaCO3 mortar. Because 12th century war poem Kalingathu-p-parani.4 of the enormous heat, the lime kilns, it seems, were used as tor- According to the Tamil Lexicon of the Uni- ture rooms. In Çékkizhār’s Périya Purānam (also 12th century CE) verses 1360–1368 (https://shaivam.org.devotees/the-puranam-of- 2https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chepauk_Palace# thirunavukkarasar, accessed 15 August 2019) refer to the admonish- /media/File:\Chepauk_Palace.jpg,public domain. ment of Ŧirunāvuk-karasar (6th–7th centuries), a Śaiva Saint, for 3https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chunam, accessed seven days to a lime kiln by Mahéndra Varma I of the Pallava dynasty 11 August 2019. (r. 600–630 CE) ruling from Kānçipuram. Only literary evidence exists 4Kalingathu-p-parani is a war poem composed by Jayamkondār in for this claim (personal communication, Venkat Prakash, Indologie, celebration of the grand victory of Kulôŧunga Çôlā I (1070—1120 Institut Français de Pondichéry, email, 14 August 2019). CE, of the later Çolā dynasty) and his commander Karunakara-t- 6Vajralépa (Sanskrit): vajra — diamond, lépa — paste, glue Ŧôndaiman over Ananŧavarman Chôdaganga Devā, king of Kalinga 7Use of vajralépa in ancient Hindu temples is explained in Raddock Désā (most of modern Orissa and some of northern coastal Andhra (2011, p. 114, footnote 680). 27 ARTICLES IJHS | VOL 55.1 | MARCH 2020 temples (Chakrabarti 1998, Indorf 2004). Its high tensile cause the hydraulic lime he used, set rapidly securing and compression strength is currently established as 100 the stone blocks laid under water (Adams 189, p. 380). kPa (Atalkar et al. 2006). Smeaton’s work paved the foundation for developing con- Mahmud Shah (r. 1538–1554), the ruler of Ahmed- crete in later years. In 1894, Joseph Aspdin (1778–1855), abad (modern Gujarat), on being repeatedly harassed by a British bricklayer, invented the modern cement (Rinde the Portuguese in Surat, instructed his army commander 2015) and named it ‘Portland cement’ after burning thin- Safi Agā to build an extra-strong fort there in the 16th ground chalk and clay in a kiln until all the included CO2 century. Safi Agā built the Surat fort in 1540–1546, sur- was completely removed. Aspdin was the first to heat Al- rounded by two — each 20 yards (18.3 m) wide — water- and Si-including materials to the point of vitrification, en- filled moats. Walls of the fort and the moats were builtus- abling fusion among the different minerals in the compos- ing stone, chûnnam mortar, and burnt brick (Elliott 1873, ite. He improved the procedure by rectifying the propor- p. 575). Stone grinders pulled by either single or a pair tions of limestone and clay before powdering and burning of bulls to grind lime mortar were usually used. Stunning to residue, and finally grinding that into finished cement details of the different mortars used in building the Bibi- (Crider 1907).9 ka-Maqbara in Aurangabad by Aurangazeb in memory of The Portland cement (PC) and concrete are incredible his principal wife Dilras Banu in 1660 are available (Singh materials that changed the complexion of the present hu- et al. 2014). man society. Besides acknowledging the fact that growth and performance of construction industry are major and 1.1 Lime mortar elsewhere and the Portland critical indices of economic growth and development cement (Ofori 2015), construction of humongous buildings repre- sent superb science and fascinating technology (e.g., Burj Romans of the later Roman Republic (c. 500–0 BCE) used Khalifa, Dubai). Such super-tall buildings exemplify the a composite, referred as the Roman concrete (RoC, opus brilliance of human intellect, since many natural forces caementicum) to construct submerged pillars in harbours need to be factored and countered while carrying out such and walls of aqueducts (Lamprecht 2008). This was a challenging tasks. The c. 500 m tall Taipei 101 (built in hydraulic-setting material, which hardened within min- 2004), stands majestically in Taipei, withstanding the pe- utes after application under water. Volcanic ash in RoC riodical earthquakes and tropical storms in Taiwan.
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