[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v1.c11.t2 # 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 - **Language:** English ### A Process of Killing Iron ### [v1.c11.t2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c11.t2.2) CHAKRAPANI ### [v1.c11.t2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c11.t2.3) (Circa 1060 A. D.) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c11.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c11.t2) · Pramāṇa