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A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c11.t2.1

A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c11.t2.1

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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.