Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.s5.t3.10
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c23.s5.t3.10
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The Guddaira is a wedge of clay used to adjust the vertical position of the Akaira when placed in the furnace; and the Pachar is an oblong plate of clay, used in walling up the orifice after the Akaira is placed, and adjusted; these figures and dimensions are given in Diagram I—fig 7 and 8; the Gurairy (Diagram I, fig 6) is a convex plate of clay; perforated with holes and used as a grate—through which the scoria are drawn off.