*Kuruvinda* : corundum (2.14.48) *Kṣāra* : sugar-cane juice, (2.15.14 and 64, 2.29.43, 2.30.18, 2.31.13) also alkali (2.12.9 and 27; 2.15.15) *Kṣudraka* : minor work in gold (bead-making etc.) (2.13.37 and 40) *Kṣurakalpa* : razor type weapons (2.18.14) see text chapter 5 *Kṣepaṇa* : setting or binding in gold or silver (2.12.37-38) *Khaḍga* : sword (2.18.12) varieties see chapter 5 *Gāndhāra* : red lead (2.14.35) *Gomedaka* : gem of cow-flesh colour (2.11.30; 2.12.6) *Candrakānta* : see *Nandaka* *Cuncuvālukā* : fine sand (2.12.5) *Jatu* : lac (2.14.35) *Jātārūpa* : gold (2.13.3) *Jimūtaprabha* : gem with the lustre of dark cloud (cloudstone?) (2.11.31) *Taṅka* : chisel (4.4.20) *Tapanīya* : gold specially prepared for making ornaments using heat (2.13.61) *Tapanīyakāru* : a maker of ornamental gold (2.13.33) *Tapta* : ornamental gold (2.14.8) *Tāmra* : copper (2.12.23-24, 2.13.52 and 58, 2.17.14, 4.1.35) *Tāra* : silver for ornaments (2.13.49, 2.14.30) *Tāla* : bell-metal (2.12.23) *Tīkṣṇa* : cast or carburised iron (2.12.15 and 24; 2.13.48 and 58) *Tīkṣṇa Dhātu* : iron ore which produce iron (2.12.15) whitish-red (*sinduvāra* flower like) stone *Tuttha* : a crucible for heating and purification of silver (2.13.49) *Trapu* : tin (2.12.14, 23 and 24; 2.17.14, 4.1.39) *Tripuṭaka* : two parts of silver and one part of copper (2.14.20-21) *Tvaṣṭr* : a gold plater (2.13.33) *Tvaṣṭrkarmaṇa* : gold plating (2.13.44) *Danta* : tooth of an elephant or ivory (3.17.8)

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*Dhātu* : metallic ore (not metal yet) (2.12.7 and 12-18, 2.22.6)

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*Nandaka* : a gem, white inside and blue outside, resembles *Candrakānta* (2.11.31)

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*Nāli* : a tube, a blowpipe (2.14.23, 13.2.21)

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*Nālikā* : a measure of time approximately 24 minutes standardised by the time required for the flow of a certain amount of water through a standard hole (1.7.8, 1.19.6, 2.20.35)

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*Nikaṣya* : touchstone, actually streakplate for testing streak of gold and silver (2.13.17-27)

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*Paṇa* : a silver coin (*Kārṣāpaṇa*) (2.12.24; 2.13.15-16)

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*Paṇayātrā* : circulation of coin/currency (2.12.25, 4.1.44-45)

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*Padmarāga* : ruby (2.11.29)

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*Paribhāṇḍa* : the encircling metal (in the setting of gems etc.) (2.13.43, 2.14.37)

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*Pākamukta* : product of crystallisation (2.12.28) (salt)

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*Pāṇsudhāvaka* : the dust-washer (in a mine or goldsmith's shop), (2.13.33; 4.1.49)

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*Pinka* : embedding of metals, gems and chemicals (2.14.34-42)

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*Pūtikitta* : dross or slag from furnace (2.14.23)

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*Pudgala* : an article made of gold or silver (2.14.7 and 43)

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*Puṣyarāga* : a gem, yellow like turmeric (2.11.30)

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*Pṛṣata* : making of beads (of gold etc.), a bead (2.13.40, 43 and 60; 2.14.45)

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*Pṛṣatakāru* : a bead-maker (2.13.33)

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*Petaka* : enclosing of metals (2.14.26-33)

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*Peṣaka* : a grinder (1.21.10)

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*Pautava* : standardisation (from *pū* to refine) (2.19.1)

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*Pratāpana* : heating (4.8.22)

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*Pravāla* : coral (2.6.4; 2.11.42; 2.12.27)

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*Prātivedhanika* : stamping of weights and measures (2.19.40), stamping fee (2.19.42)

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*Prāstara* : consisting of rocks (2.3.1)

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*Phalāmla* : sour fruit juice (acidic), (2.15.18, 2.25.39)

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*Bimba* : die for making coins (4.4.20)

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*Bija* : an alloy (2.12.24)

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*Bhastrā* : skin bag, bellow (4.4.20)

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*Bhānda* : article, container

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*Manirāga* : the imparting of colour to gems (1.18.8, 2.12.1)

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*Mandala* : a metal ball (2.19.13)

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*Manahśilā* : realgar, red arsenic sulphide (2.12.2, 2.14.48, 2.22.6, 14.2.17)

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*Mārjārakṣaka* : cat’s eye, a variation of beryl (2.11.39)

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*Māsaka* : copper coin, 1/16 of a *pana* (2.12.24, 2.13.15-16, 2.19.2-7)

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*Muktā* : pearl (2.6.4)

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*Mukhalavana* : rock salt, salt from the Indus land (2.29.43)

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*Mudrā* : stamp, seal (later coin) (1.20.23, 2.21.2 and 26, 5.3.41, 11.1.25)

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*Mustika* : a hand-vice (4.4.20)

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*Mūsā* : a crucible, (2.12.1, 4.4.20)

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*Mūkamūsā* : dummy crucible (2.14.23)

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*Yantra* : a machine (2.15.62, 2.18.1, 10.6.48); a mechanism (1.20.2, 2.3.34, 2.5.2)

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*Yāntrika* : a mechanic (10.3.44)

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*Yavaksāra* : caustic ash of barley (2.12.9; 2.15.15)

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*Yogānjana* : a poisonous collyrium which blinds (4.10.13)

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*Rasa* : a liquid ore (2.12.2) ore from streams (?)

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*Rasapāka* : the smelting of liquid ores (2.12.1-3)

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*Rasaviddha* : smelted from liquid ores or obtained from streams (?) qualifying gold. Another kind of gold stated to be from the mines (2.13.3 and 6)

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*Rūpa* : a coin (2.12.24; 5.2.61)

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*Rūpadarśaka* : an examiner of coins (2.5.10, 2.9.28, 2.12.25, 4.1.44)

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*Rūpika* : coining fee, manufacturing charges (2.12.26, 30 and 35; 2.6.10)

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*Rūpya* : silver (2.12.5. and 6; 2.14.20)

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*Rocani* : the grinding mill (3.8.11)

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*Rocanidrsad* : the mill stones (2.15.62; 2.18.15)

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*Laksanādhyaksah* : mint-master (2.12.24)

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*Lavaṇādhyakṣaḥ* : master of salt works (2.12.28) *Lohādhyakṣaḥ* : the director of metal-work (2.12.23) *Vajra* : diamond (2.6.4, 2.11.37, 2.12.27) *Varṇa* : colour or quality (2.14.5, 3.12.53, 4.1.30) *Varṇikā* : the standard gold (2.13.17) *Vāsaya* : to gild (2.13.46) *Vāsitaka* : gilding (2.14.17) *Vāstuka* : the base or frame of a gold article (2.13.43, 2.14.35, 39 and 46) *Viḍa/bida* : salt containing chlorides of sodium and calcium, also sulphate and some red iron oxide (from sea-water) (2.15.15) *Vimalaka* : white-red gem from Vimala (Girnar) mountains. Carnelian? Pyrite? (2.11.35, 2.12.6) *Viṣṭi* : sappers, miners and labourers (9.2.9, 10.1.9 and 17, 10.4.17) *Vija* : additive alloying element to harden (2.12.24) *Vṛtta* : steel or carburised iron (2.12.23, 2.17.14, 3.17.8, 4.1.35) *Vedhana* : which transmutes through smelting (2.12.3 and 5) *Vellaka* : an alloy of silver and iron in equal proportions (2.14.22) *Vaikṛntaka* : a kind of metal (2.12.16 and 23; 2.17.14, 4.1.35). Some special kind of alloy of iron? Later *vaikrānta* meant a gem like diamond. *Vaidūrya* : beryl (2.11.30) *Śaṅkha* : conch-shell (2.6.4, 2.12.27, 7.12.24) *Śilājatu* : bitumen or ‘lac of the rock’ (2.12.4) *Śukti* : oyster, nacre (2.11.35) *Śulka* : duty, toll (2.21.2) *Śulkaśālā* : the customs house (2.21.1) *Śulva* : two meanings: (1) copper (2.13.16 and 44; 2.14.20-22 and 30-31); (2) underground vein of metal ore (2.12.1) or water (2.24.1) *Śvetatāra* : white silver (2.13.50, 51 and 54) *Sattva* : the metallic content (or essence) (2.12.7) *Samyūha* : to coat, to plate (2.13.44, 2.14.48)

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*Saṃyūhya* : the work of gold-plating (2.14.17, 26 and 50)

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*Saṃkara* : impurity (3.14.38)

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*Saṃdhātya* : fixing base metal in an article of gold or silver (2.14.17, 26 and 30)

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*Saṃdaṃśa* : a pair of tongs (2.14.23)

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*Sasyaka* : blue gem, copper sulphate (2.11.35, 2.12.6)

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*Sāra* : an article of high value (2.5.8, 2.7.2, 2.11.1) strength (1.16.9, 8.1.61)

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*Sīsā* : lead (2.12.6, 13 and 24; 2.13.6 and 47; 2.17.14, 4.1.39)

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*Suvarcikalavaṇa* : borax (2.14.23)

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*Suvarṇa* : gold of fixed weight 16 māṣakas (2.19.3, 2.13.15, 48; 4.1.28)

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*Suvarṇa Pāka* : the smelting of gold (1.18.8)

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*Suvarṇādhyakṣa* : the superintendent of gold-works (2.13.1)

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*Sūryakānta* : sunstone gem (2.11.32)

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*Saindhavikā* : earth or sand from the river Indus (2.13.47 and 49)

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*Saugandhikā* : red gem spinel (or ruby?) (2.11.29)

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*Sauvarcala* : borax (2.15.15)

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*Sauvarṇika* : the state goldsmith (2.13.2; 2.14.1 and 11)

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*Sneha* : fat (2.15.64)

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*Sphaṭika* : quartz, crystal (2.11.32)

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*Sravanmadhya* : bluish gem ‘having rays shooting like flowing water’ (2.11.31) Asteriated or star sapphire.

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*Haritāla* : yellow orpiment, arsenic sulphide (2.14.48, 2.22.6, 14.2.17)

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*Hiṅguluka* : vermilion, mercuric sulphide (2.13.19 and 46, 2.14.34 and 48, 2.22.6)

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*Hiraṇya* : money, cash (1.13.6, 1.19.12)

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Samyukta : the work of the Sūtras (1.1.10 and 1.1.11). Samyukta : (1.1.12). Samyukta : fixing these metals in an alloy of gold (1.1.13). Samyukta : a piece of copper (1.1.14). Samyukta : the upper part of the Sūtra (1.1.15, 1.1.16). Samyukta : a piece of gold (1.1.17 and 1.1.18). Samyukta : the gold to which it refers is as it were the Samyukta : the smelting of gold (1.1.19). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.20). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.21). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.22). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.23). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.24). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.25). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.26). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.27). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.28). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.29). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.30). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.31). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.32). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.33). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.34). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.35). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.36). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.37). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.38). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.39). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.40). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.41). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.42). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.43). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.44). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.45). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.46). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.47). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.48). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.49). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.50). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.51). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.52). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.53). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.54). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.55). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.56). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.57). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.58). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.59). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.60). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.61). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.62). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.63). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.64). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.65). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.66). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.67). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.68). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.69). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.70). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.71). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.72). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.73). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.74). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.75). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.76). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.77). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.78). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.79). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.80). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.81). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.82). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.83). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.84). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.85). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.86). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.87). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.88). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.89). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.90). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.91). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.92). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.93). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.94). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.95). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.96). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.97). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.98). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.99). Samyukta : the treatment of gold (1.1.100).

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