The Institutes of Akbar 65.1.4

65.1.4

And of all other kinds it is the best, the whitest, which has the thinnest layers, the cleanest, and the largest. Inferior to it is the kind called Qurgit, which is Blackish and dirty. Still inferior is the light brown kind called Kaukab. The worst camphor is mixed with pieces of wood; it goes under the name of Balis. By artificial crystallization each kind will become clean and white. In some books camphor in its natural state is called Jiddnah or Bhimsini. If kept with a few barley grains, or peppercorns, or surkh ddnahs, it will evaporate the less. The camphor which is made of Zurumbad by mixing it with other ingredients, is called Chini or Mayyit-camphor. White Zurumbad is finely pounded, and mixed with sour cream of cow or buffaloe's milk; on the fourth day they put fresh cream to it, and beat it with the hand till foam appears, which they take away. With this they mix some camphor, put it into a box, and keep it for some time in the husks of grains. Or, they reduce some white stone to fine powder, mix it at the rate of ten dirhams of it with two dirhams of wax, and half a dirham of oil of Violet, or oil of Surkh Gul. The wax is first melted, and then mixed with the powder, so as to form a paste. They then put it between two stones, and make it thin and flat. When it gets cold, it looks like camphor, bits of which are mixed with it. Unprincipled men profit in this manner by the loss of others. 4. Zabad (civet) is also called Shakh.