When in India "died" wootz?

[mahratt]

Originally Posted by ariel

The "natives" were doing it for hundreds of years and transmitting the combined knowledge to their apprentices. A loss of only one generation would throw the whole level of expertise back to the beginning. And that, together with other external factors you have mentioned, killed the whole tradition.

One simple question. Where "lost" this generation?

Moreover, the tradition is usually stored for a long time.