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# Rasendracudamani 14.145

Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 14.145

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [14.145](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasendracudamani.14.145)

{lead:: śuddha:: parīkṣā}  
drutadrāvaṃ mahābhāraṃ chede kṛṣṇaṃ samujjvalam /  
pūtigandhaṃ bahiḥkṛṣṇaṃ śuddhaṃ sīsamato'nyathā //

> \[Testing purified lead\] / Swiftly melting, very heavy, black and very lustrous when cut, / fetid smelling, and black on the outside: \[such is\] genuine lead; otherwise it is false.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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