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(ii) *Māṣakalāya* (*Phaseolus Roxburghii*) soaked in a decoction of purgative roots was dried in Sun. Some winter rice was also washed in the decoction (and dried) and powdered coarse. Pulse and rice mixed together was made into balls, dried and powdered very fine. The powder heated along with the decoction of purgative drugs, pressed hard and made paste. Three parts of this paste and one part of *kiṇva* (herbs used for as forment) admixed with suitable quantity of decoction was subjected to fermentation in an earthen jar.