Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c45.s4.12

v2.c45.s4.12

Identity of some of the cited minerals could not be firmly established: Kampillaka from Saurāṣṭra, which looks like brick powder, ‘white or quartz-like gauripāṣāṇa which yields a white satva’, yellow marine nodules varāṭikā, girisindūra ‘inside rocks of big mountains which becomes red on drying’, etc.