Rasadhyaya 237_276

237_276

Putting steel powder and bell-metal powder in equal measure into a crucible and melting it, a single lump is made. / Then, putting pure lead into the middle to half the measure of that lump, it should be digested by melting again and again in a crucible. / Then again, adding lead to half the measure, it should be digested. / And if by such repeated digestion the digested lead becomes six times the bell-metal, / then the bell-metal amalgam (vyoṣarāji) is produced. / Thus the bell-metal amalgam, meaning the amalgam of bell-metal. // 1.236-237:1-6