Ashtangasamgraha 30.10

30.10

And according to each type, having taken a smooth paste of smoking ingredients the size of an akṣa seed, one should smear it on a reed twelve aṅgulas long that has spent a day and night in water.

There, making a stick having nine aṅgulas of core, smeared five times, as thick as the thumb, shaped like a barley grain in the middle, and dried in the shade, and removing the reed, smearing it with fat, lighting it on charcoal, and placing it into the hole at the base of the pipe, one should bring it near for smoking as appropriate.

Lest there be an increase of disorder from the non-emergence of heat covered by cold.