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# Rasendracudamani 14.11

Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 14.11

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [14.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasendracudamani.14.11)

{gold:: parīkṣā:: bad quality}  
rūkṣaṃ vivarṇaṃ malinaṃ kaṭhoraṃ kṛṣṇaṃ ca dāhe nikaṣe ca pāṇḍu /  
sthūlāṅgakaṃ nirbharakaṃ kaḍāraṃ sphuṭatsuvarṇaṃ daśadhā na śastam //

> Dry, discoloured, dirty, hard, black on heating, pale on the touchstone, / coarse-bodied, light in weight, brownish, and cracking: gold in these ten ways is not commendable.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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