A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c11.t2: A Process of Killing Iron
A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c11.t2
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A Process of Killing Iron
v1.c11.t2.1
The text which occurs only in the Kāsmīr Ms. under रमायनाधिकारः। unfortunately in a mutilated from,* would seem to indicate that the iron is to be first ignited in the fire and then macerated in the juice of the emblic myrobalan, and *trewia nudiflora* and exposed to the sun, and again to be macerated in the juice of certain other plants and then to be rubbed in a mortar.
v1.c11.t2.2
CHAKRAPANI
v1.c11.t2.3
(Circa 1060 A. D.)