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loadstone is said to be the goad. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.10) kṣetraṃ jñātvā gṛhītavyaṃ tatprayatnena bhūyasā / mārutātapanikṣiptaṃ varjayetsurasundari // > Knowing the ore field, it must be gathered with great effort. / One should avoid that which is exposed to wind and sun, O celestial beauty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.11) bhūmisthitaṃ ca yatkāntaṃ chāgaraktena bhāvayet / chāgaraktapraliptena carmaṇā tatpraveṣṭayet // > And the loadstone situated in the ground one should macerate with goat's blood; / one should wrap it with skin smeared with goat's blood. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.12) chāgacarma parīveṣṭya vinyasetpūrvavatkṣitau / uddhṛtaṃ saptabhirmāsaistoyakumbhe vinikṣipet // > Having wrapped it in goat hide, one should place it in the earth as before. / Taken out after seven months, one should cast it into a jar of water. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.13) raktapuṣpaiḥ sadā pūjyaṃ raktagandhānulepanaiḥ / pūritaṃ madyamāṃsaiśca yojyaṃ rasarasāyane // > It must always be worshiped with red flowers and ointments of red fragrant sandalwood paste; / saturated with liquor and meat, it should be employed in mercurial rejuvenation therapy. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.14) saṃskṛtaṃ chāgaraktena bhrāmakaṃ cumbakaṃ bhavet / anena kramayogena drāvakaṃ bhavati priye // > Treated with goat's blood, it becomes a bhrāmaka or a cumbaka \[magnet\]; / through this systematic procedure it becomes a drāvaka \[magnet\], O beloved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.15) kāntalohaṃ vinā sūto dehe na krāmati kvacit / na kāntena vinā sūtaḥ kāntaḥ sūtavivarjitaḥ // > Without loadstone, quicksilver never acts upon the body; / quicksilver is nothing without loadstone, and loadstone is nothing without quicksilver. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.16) kāntasūtasamāyuktaḥ prayogo dehadhārakaḥ / purā proktaṃ mayā sarvaṃ kāntasatvaṃ yathāvidhi // > A formulation combining loadstone and quicksilver maintains the body. / Previously, the essence of loadstone was fully explained by me according to rule. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.17) adhunā sampravakṣyāmi kāntasaṃskāratadguṇān / \ śaśaraktena saṃliptaṃ kāntapatraṃ sudhāmitam // > Now I will expound the refinements of loadstone and their properties. / \ / A sheet of loadstone coated with hare's blood, thoroughly heated, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.18) trivāraṃ cāgninā devi doṣaṃ naisargikaṃ tyajet / \ triphalāṣṭaguṇe toye triphalā ṣoḍaśaṃ palam // > three times with fire, O goddess, sheds its innate defect. / \ / In water measuring eight times the weight of triphalā, with sixteen palas of triphalā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.19) tatkvāthapādaśeṣaṃ ca kāntasya palapañcakam / kṛtvā patrāṇi taptāni saptavāraṃ niṣecayet // > that decoction is reduced to one-fourth; and having heated sheets / made of five palas of loadstone, one should quench them seven times. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.20) eva pralīyate doṣo girijo lohasaṃbhavaḥ / kāntalohamayaṃ cūrṇaṃ gomūtre'ṣṭaguṇe pacet // > Thus the mountain-born defect originating in iron is destroyed. / One should boil powder made of loadstone in eight times its quantity of cow's urine; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.21) dhānyāmlaiḥ kṣālitaṃ bhūyaḥ śoṣitaṃ śuddhimāpnuyāt / ratnamālā haṃsapādī gojihvā triphalāmṛtā // > washed repeatedly with sour gruel and dried, it attains purity. / Ratnamālā, haṃsapādī, gojihvā, triphalā, amṛtā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.22) gopālī tumbururdantī gomūtre peṣayedimāḥ / tatkalke kāntapatraṃ tu taptaṃ taptaṃ dvisaptadhā // > gopālī, tumburu, and dantī: one should grind these in cow's urine. / Heated again and again, twice seven times, the sheet of loadstone > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.23) secayetkāntalohaṃ tu sarvadoṣanivṛttaye / \ kramaḥ kāntasya siddhyarthaṃ kartavyo mantrapūrvakam // > should be quenched in their paste, to dispel all defects from the loadstone. / \ / The procedure for the perfection of loadstone must be performed with mantra. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.24) udbhavodbhavaśabdaḥ syāccaturthyanto 'mṛtātparam / svāhāntaḥ praṇavaścādau mantro'yaṃ mardane sthitaḥ // > There should be the words 'udbhava-udbhava' in the dative case after 'amṛta', / ending with 'svāhā' and with the praṇava (Oṃ) at the beginning; this mantra is established for grinding. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.25) rakṣāyai loharasayorayamevaikamudbhavam / vinā svāheti tasyānte phaḍantaṃ yojayetpriye // > For the protection of iron and mercury, this very \[mantra\], but omitting one / 'udbhava' and 'svāhā', one should append with 'phaṭ' at the end, O beloved. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.26) praṇavordhvaṃ namaścaṇḍaṃ vajrapāṣāṇa ityapi / tataḥ paraṃ mahāvajrasenādhipataye namaḥ // > After the praṇava, 'namaś caṇḍa-vajrapāṣāṇāya', / followed by 'mahāvajrasenādhipataye namaḥ', > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.27) dviruktasaruśabdaḥ syān mahāvidyābalāya ca / tatastvāheti mantro'yaṃ balikarmaṇi pūjitaḥ // > the word 'saru' spoken twice, and 'mahāvidyābalāya ca', / and then 'svāhā'—this mantra is revered in the performance of oblations. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.28) anenaiva baliṃ kṛtvā yathoktāmācaretkriyām / \ stanyena hiṅgulasyātha peṣayetpalapañcakam // > Having offered an oblation with this very \[mantra\], one should perform the prescribed rite. / \ / Then, one should grind five palas of cinnabar with breast milk. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.29) tenaiva patraṃ kāntasya limpetpañcapalonmitam / ruddhvā gajapuṭe pācyaṃ kaṣāyaistraiphalaiḥ punaḥ // > With that, one should coat a sheet of loadstone weighing five palas. / Sealed, it must be incinerated in an elephant pit (gajapuṭa); then again with triphalā decoction, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.30) jambīrair āranalairvā viṃśatyaṃśena hiṅgulam / piṣṭvālipya puṭe ruddhvā tallohe pācayetpunaḥ // > or with limes or fermented gruel, grinding cinnabar in a twentieth part \[of the iron\], / coating it, sealing it in a roasting crucible, one should cook that iron again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.31) ruddhaṃ puṭetpacedrātrau prātar drāvaiśca bhāvayet / evamaṣṭadinaṃ kuryāttrividhaṃ mriyate hyayaḥ // > Sealed, one should roast and cook it by night, and in the morning triturate it with juices; / one should do this for eight days, and verily the three kinds of iron are killed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.32) \ ciñcāpatranibhaṃ kuryātkāntaṃ tīkṣṇaṃ ca muṇḍakam / mṛtpātrasthaṃ kṣiped gharme dantīdrāvaiḥ prapūrayet // > \ / One should make loadstone, cast iron, and wrought iron \[thin\] like tamarind leaves, / place them in an earthen vessel in the sun, and fill it with juices of dantī. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.33) patraṃ punaḥ punastāvadyāvattarati tatsvayam / mriyate tīvragharmeṇa taccūrṇīkṛtya yojayet // > The sheet \[is immersed\] repeatedly, until it floats on its own; / it is killed by the intense heat of the sun; having powdered it, one should use it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.34) \ kāntāyastīkṣṇamuṇḍānāṃ cūrṇaṃ matsyākṣijairdravaiḥ / ātape tridinaṃ bhāvyaṃ tridinaṃ citrakadravaiḥ // > \ / Powder of loadstone, cast iron, and wrought iron should be triturated in the sun / for three days with juices from matsyākṣī, for three days with citraka juices, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.35) tryahaṃ trikaṇṭakarasaiḥ sahadevīdravair dinam / gomūtraistriphalākvāthairbhāvayecca tryahaṃ tryaham // > for three days with trikaṇṭaka juices, for one day with sahadevī juices, / and for three days each with cow's urine and triphalā decoctions. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.36) uktadrāvaistato mardyaṃ kramāddeyaṃ puṭaṃ puṭam / ruddhvā gajapuṭairevaṃ mṛtaṃ yogeṣu yojayet // > Then it must be ground with the stated juices and successively given roasting after roasting; / sealed and \[calcined\] in elephant pits in this manner, the killed \[iron\] should be used in formulations. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.37) \ sthālyāṃ vā lohapātre vā lohadarvyā vicālayan / pācayettriphalākvāthair dinaṃ lohacūrṇakam // > \ / Either in an earthen pot or in an iron vessel, stirring with an iron ladle, / one should cook the iron powder for a day with triphalā decoction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.38) tatpiṇḍaṃ triphalātoyaiḥ piṣṭvā ruddhvā puṭe pacet / ṣoḍaśāṅgulagartāntar nirvāte 'harniśaṃ pacet // > Grinding that lump with triphalā water and sealing it, one should cook it in a pit; / inside a sixteen-aṅgula pit, free of draft, one should cook it day and night. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.39) evaṃ tridhā prakartavyaṃ sthālīpākaṃ puṭāntakam / bhṛṅgārdrakaṃ tālamūlaṃ hastikarṇyāśca mūlakam // > Cooking in a pot followed by roasting should be done thus three times. / Bhṛṅga, ginger, tālamūla, hastikarṇī root, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.40) śatāvarīvidāryośca mūlaṃ tattriphalāmbhasi / saṃpeṣya pūrvavatsthālyāṃ pācyaṃ peṣyaṃ tridhā puṭaiḥ // > and the root of śatāvarī and vidārī—grinding these in triphalā water, / it should be cooked in a pot as before and ground, \[subjected to\] three roastings. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.41) pācyaṃ tataḥ punarnavyāḥ kvāthaiśca daśamūlataḥ / bṛhatyāśca kaṣāyeṇa bījapūrasya ca dravaiḥ // > Then it must be cooked with decoctions of punarnavā and daśamūla, / with decoction of bṛhatī, and with juices of citron, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.42) brahmabījarasaiḥ śigrukvāthair gopayasāpi ca / pratyekaṃ saṃprapeṣyādau pūrvagarte puṭe pacet // > with juices of brahmabīja, horse-radish tree decoctions, and cow's milk: / grinding thoroughly with each one first, one should cook it in a pit in the aforesaid pit. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.43) bhāvayettaddraveṇaiva puṭānte yāmamātrakam / pratyekamevaṃ saṃpeṣya puṭayed bhāvayetkramāt // > At the end of the roasting, one should triturate it with that very juice for just one yāma; / grinding with each one thus, one should roast and triturate in succession. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.44) mriyate nātra sandehaḥ kāntaṃ tīkṣṇaṃ ca muṇḍakam / \ śuddhasūtaṃ dvidhā gandhaṃ khalve kṛtvā tu kajjalīm // > Loadstone, cast iron, and wrought iron are killed, of this there is no doubt. / \ / Having made black sulphide of mercury (kajjalī) in a mortar from pure quicksilver and two parts of sulphur, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.45) dvayoḥ samaṃ kāntacūrṇaṃ mardayetkanyakādravaiḥ / yāmadvayātsamuddhṛtya tadgolaṃ tāmrapātrake // > one should grind loadstone powder equal to both of them with juices of aloe; / after two yāmas, having removed that ball, placing it in a copper vessel, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.46) ācchādyairaṇḍapatraiśca yāmārdhe 'tyuṣṇatāṃ gatam / dhānyarāśau nyasetpaścāttridinānte samuddharet // > and covering it with castor leaves, when it becomes extremely hot within half a yāma, / one should then place it in a heap of grain and take it out at the end of three days. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.47) saṃpeṣya gālayedvastre satyaṃ vāritaraṃ bhavet / kāntaṃ tīkṣṇaṃ ca muṇḍaṃ ca nirutthaṃ jāyate mṛtam // > Grinding it thoroughly, one should sift it through cloth; truly it becomes water-floating; / loadstone, cast iron, and wrought iron become dead and incapable of reviving. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.48) svarṇādīnmārayedevaṃ cūrṇīkuryācca lohavat / siddhayogam athākhyātaṃ siddhānāṃ saṃmukhāgatam // > One may kill gold and the like in this manner, and powder them like iron. / This perfected formula, handed down directly from the Adepts, is thus expounded. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.49) anubhūtaṃ mayā devi sarvarogāpahārakam / nāyaḥ pacetpañcapalapramāṇād adho na cordhvaṃ tridaśapramāṇāt // > Experienced by me, O goddess, it cures all diseases. / One should not cook iron less than five palas in measure, nor above thirty. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.50) \ arjunasya tvacaḥ peṣyāḥ kāñjikenātilolitāḥ / tanmadhye kāntacūrṇaṃ ca kāṃsyapātre vinikṣipet // > \ / The bark of arjuna should be ground and well stirred with sour gruel; / into that, one should throw the loadstone powder in a bell-metal vessel. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.51) dinaikaṃ dhārayedgharme dravaiḥ pūryaṃ punaḥ punaḥ / arjunaiḥ sāranālairvā trividhaṃ mārayedayaḥ // > One should keep it in the sun for one day, filling it repeatedly with the juices, / with arjuna or with fermented gruel; thus one kills the three types of iron. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.52) dravaiḥ kukkuṭapatrotthaiḥ kāntacūrṇaṃ vimardayet / dinaṃ ca hyātape tīvre dravairmardyaṃ trikaṇṭajaiḥ // > One should grind loadstone powder with juices extracted from kukkuṭapatra; / and for a day in the intense sun, it must be ground with juices from trikaṇṭa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.53) vandhyābhṛṅgapunarnavyāḥ sagomūtrair dinaṃ punaḥ / gomūtrais triphalā kvāthyā tatkaṣāyeṇa bhāvayet // > and again for a day with vandhyākārkoṭakī, bhṛṅga, and punarnavā along with cow's urine. / Triphalā should be boiled with cow's urine, and one should triturate it with that decoction > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.54) trisaptāhaṃ prayatnena dinaikaṃ mardayettataḥ / ruddhvā gajapuṭe pacyāddinaṃ kvāthena mardayet // > carefully for three weeks; then one should grind it for one day; / sealing it, one should cook it in an elephant pit; for a day one should grind it with the decoction. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.55) divā mardyaṃ puṭed rātrāvekaviṃśaddināvadhi / ekaviṃśatpuṭairevaṃ mriyate trividhaṃ hyayaḥ // > One should grind by day and roast by night up to twenty-one days; / by twenty-one roastings, the three kinds of iron are verily killed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.56) \ mākṣikaṃ ca śilā hyamlairharidrā maricāṅghri ca / piṣṭvā lepyaṃ kāntapatraṃ taptaṃ taptaṃ niṣecayet // > \ / Pyrites and realgar with sours, turmeric, and pepper root: / grinding these, one should coat the loadstone sheet, and heat and quench it repeatedly. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.57) saptadhā traiphale kvāthe jalena kṣālayetpunaḥ / kuṭṭayellohadaṇḍena peṣayettraiphale jale // > Seven times into a decoction of triphalā; he should wash it again with water. / He should pound it with an iron rod, \[and\] grind it in water of triphalā. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.58) ṣoḍaśāṃśena lohasya dātavyaṃ mākṣikaṃ śilā / amlena marditaṃ ruddhvā gajākhyaikapuṭe pacet // > Mākṣika and realgar are to be added in one-sixteenth proportion of the iron. / Ground with sour \[gruel\], sealed, he should cook it in a single elephant-pit furnace. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.59) nirutthaṃ jāyate bhasma kāntaṃ tīkṣṇaṃ ca muṇḍakam / \ tindūphalasya majjāyāṃ khaḍgaṃ liptvātape khare // > It becomes unrevivable ash: kānta, tīkṣṇa, and muṇḍaka \[iron\]. > \ > Having smeared \[a sheet of\] sword\[-iron\] with the pulp of tindu fruit, in fierce sunlight, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.60) dhārayetkāṃsyapātrāntardinaikena sphuṭatyalam / lepaṃ punaḥ punaḥ kuryāddinānte taṃ prapeṣayet // > he should keep it inside a bronze vessel; in a single day it splits completely. / He should apply the coating again and again; at the end of the day he should grind it thoroughly. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.61) triphalākvāthasaṃyuktaṃ dinaikena mṛto bhavet / toyāṣṭabhāgaśeṣeṇa triphalā palapañcakam // > Combined with triphalā decoction, in a single day it becomes dead. / With one-eighth part of water remaining, five palas of triphalā, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.62) ghṛtaṃ kvāthasya tulyaṃ syādghṛtatulyaṃ mṛtāyasam / pācayettāmrapātre tu lohadarvyā vicālayan // > ghee should be equal to the decoction, \[and\] dead iron equal to the ghee. / He should cook it in a copper vessel, stirring it with an iron ladle, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.63) mṛdvagninā pacedyāvattāvajjīryati taddravam / lohatulyā sitā yojyā supakvāmavatārayet // > he should cook it with a mild fire until that liquid is digested. / Sugar equal to the iron is to be added; he should take down the well-cooked \[mixture\]. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.64) yogavāham idaṃ khyātaṃ mṛtalohaṃ mahāmṛtam / itthaṃ kāntasya tīkṣṇasya muṇḍasyāpi hyayaṃ vidhiḥ // > This is known as a carrier vehicle; dead iron is a great ambrosia. / In this way, this method applies to kānta, tīkṣṇa, and muṇḍa as well. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.65) ghṛtatulyaṃ mṛtaṃ lohaṃ lohapātragataṃ pacet / jīrṇe ghṛte samādāya sarvayogeṣu yojayet // > He should cook dead iron equal to ghee, placed in an iron vessel. / When the ghee is consumed, he should take it and employ it in all formulations. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.66) oṃ oṃ amṛtendra bhakṣayāmi namaḥ / pātre yasminpraviśati jale tailabindurna sarpet hiṅgurgandhaṃ visṛjati nijāṃ tiktatāṃ nimbakalkaḥ / pāke dugdhaṃ bhavati śikharākāratā naiva bhūmau kāntaṃ lohaṃ tadidamuditaṃ lakṣaṇoktaṃ na cānyat // > Oṃ oṃ, O king of ambrosia, I consume \[you\], obeisance! / In whichever vessel \[it is placed\], entering water, a drop of oil does not spread; asafoetida abandons its odor, neem paste its own bitterness; / upon cooking milk does not take a peaked form upon the ground: that is said to be kānta iron, stated by its characteristics and not otherwise. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.67) \ lohapākastridhā prokto mṛdumadhyakharātmakaḥ / paṅkotkarasamaḥ pūrvaḥ piṇḍapākastu madhyamaḥ // > \ > The cooking of iron is declared to be threefold: mild, medium, and harsh. / The first is like a mass of mud, but medium is cooking into a lump; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.68) tṛtīyaḥ kharapākaḥ syād vālukāsadṛśaḥ priye / \ pākaṃ varṇaṃ tathā gandhaṃ jñātvā lohasya vahnitaḥ // > the third is harsh cooking, resembling sand, O beloved. > \ > Having known the stage of cooking, color, and likewise smell of the iron from the fire, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.69) uttāryātha tataḥ śuddhaṃ lohapātrāntare nyaset / lohamātaṅgapañcāsyā gandhamākṣīkahiṅgulāḥ // > having taken it off, he should then place the purified \[iron\] inside an iron vessel. / Iron, lion-to-elephants (mercury), sulfur, mākṣika, \[and\] cinnabar: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.70) \ sarvametanmṛtaṃ lohaṃ dhmātavyaṃ mitrapañcakaiḥ / yadyevaṃ syānnirutthānaṃ sevyaṃ vāritaraṃ hitam // > \ > All this dead iron is to be blown with the five friends \[of metals\]. / If it thus has no revivability, floating on water, it should be consumed as beneficial. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.71) madhvājyena samāyuktaṃ lohaṃ tāreṇa saṃyutam / andhamūṣāgataṃ dhmātaṃ gṛhṇīyāt svāṅgaśītalam // > Combined with honey and ghee, iron joined with silver, / placed in a blind crucible and blown, he should take when cold of itself. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.72) lohamadhyagataṃ tāraṃ pūrvamānaṃ bhavedyadi / tadā lohaṃ nirutthaṃ syādanyathā sādhayetpunaḥ // > If the silver situated inside the iron is of its previous measure, / then the iron is unrevivable; otherwise he should process it again. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.73) gandhakaṃ cotthitaṃ lohaṃ tulyaṃ khalve vimardayet / dinaikaṃ kanyakādrāvai ruddhvā gajapuṭe pacet // > He should grind sulfur and the revived iron in equal parts in a mortar / for one day with aloe juice, seal it, and cook it in an elephant-pit furnace. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.74) ityevaṃ sarvalohānāṃ kartavyetthaṃ nirutthitiḥ / \ kāntasindūramāyuṣyamārogyaṃ balavīryadam // > In this way, unrevivability of all irons is to be performed thus. > \ > Kānta-red-powder brings longevity, health, and bestows strength and virility; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.75) dehadārḍhyakaraṃ śreṣṭhaṃ kuryādindriyapāṭavam / tridoṣaśamanaṃ rājayakṣmarogavināśanam // > it causes firmness of the body, is supreme, and brings sharpness to the sense organs. / It pacifies the three humors and destroys consumption disease; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.76) jvarāsṛkpittapāṇḍvādīn hanyād aṣṭamahāgadān / yadyadrogaharair yogais tattadrogaharaṃ bhavet // > it destroys fevers, intrinsic hemorrhage, jaundice and the rest, \[and\] the eight great diseases. / With whatever formulations destroy particular diseases, it destroys those very diseases. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.77](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.77) \ tīkṣṇaṃ śastrāyasaṃ śastraṃ piṇḍaṃ piṇḍāyasaṃ śaṭham / āyasaṃ niśitaṃ tīvraṃ lohakhaḍgaṃ ca muṇḍajam // > \ > Tīkṣṇa, śastrāyasa, śastra, piṇḍa, piṇḍāyasa, śaṭha, / āyasa, niśita, tīvra, lohakhaḍga, and muṇḍaja; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.78](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.78) ayaścitrāyasaṃ proktaṃ cīnajaṃ ca tripañcadhā / \ muṇḍaṃ muṇḍāyasaṃ lohaṃ kṛṣṇalauhaṃ śilodbhavam // > it is called aya, citrāyasa, and cīnaja—in fifteen ways. > \ > Muṇḍa, muṇḍāyasa, loha, kṛṣṇalauha, \[and\] śilodbhava. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.79](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.79) \ kāntalohaprakāreṇa māraṇaṃ tīkṣṇamuṇḍayoḥ / \ tīkṣṇalohaṃ kaṣāyāmlaṃ tiktakaṃ kaṭukaṃ laghu // > \ > The killing of tīkṣṇa and muṇḍa is by the method of kānta iron. > \ > Tīkṣṇa iron is astringent, sour, bitter, pungent, \[and\] light; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.80](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.80) śītalaṃ lekhanaṃ rūkṣaṃ kaphapittāsrapāṇḍujit / pramehasarvaśūlaghnaṃ tīkṣṇaṃ muṇḍādhikaṃ guṇaiḥ // > it is cooling, scarifying, dry, and conquers kapha, pitta, blood \[disorders\], and jaundice. / It destroys urinary disorders and all colic; tīkṣṇa surpasses muṇḍa in qualities. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.81](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.81) \ cakṣuṣyaṃ muṇḍalohaṃ tu kaṣāyaṃ svādu tiktakam / lekhanaṃ vātahṛcchītaṃ kṛmipittakaphapraṇut // > \ > Muṇḍa iron is beneficial for the eyes, astringent, sweet, bitter, / scarifying, removes vāta, cooling, and dispels worms, pitta, and kapha; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.5.82](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5.82) śvayathūdaraśūlārśaḥkuṣṭhapāṇḍupramehajit // > it conquers swelling, abdominal disease, colic, hemorrhoids, skin diseases, jaundice, and urinary disorders. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda~en-mt.2.5.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (10) - [Rasaratnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasaratnakara.1.9.24) — Nityanātha Siddha, Sanskrit - [Rasamañjarī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.cikitsa.rasamanjari.5.50) — Śālinātha, Sanskrit - [Kāmaratna (Nityanātha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.kamya.kamaratna.12.720) — Nityanātha, Sanskrit - [Rasendracūḍāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasendracudamani.14.93) — Somadeva (alchemist), Sanskrit - [Rasendracintāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasendracintamani.6.63) — Ḍhuṇḍhukanātha, Sanskrit - [Rasasaṅketakalikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasasanketakalika.2.36) — Cāmuṇḍa Kāyastha, Sanskrit - [Rasendrapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasendrapurana.35.57) — Rāmaprasāda, Sanskrit - [Bṛhadyogataraṅgiṇī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.brhadyogatarangini.61.64) — Trimalla, Sanskrit - [Yogataraṅgiṇī (Trimalla)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.yoga.yogatarangini-trimalla-bhatta.61.64) — Trimalla, Sanskrit - [Basavarājīya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.cikitsa.daksina.basavarajiya.p3297) — Nīlakaṇṭhakoṭṭūru Basavarāja 1500, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.5) · Pramāṇa