A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c12.t7.2

v1.c12.t7.2

. . . it is to be furnished with the various apparatus. The *phallus* of mercury is to be placed in the east, furnaces to be arranged in the south-east, instruments in the south-west ; washing operations in the west ; drying in the north-west. . . . . . . The *koshtī* apparatus for the extraction of essences, the water vessels, a pair of bellows and various other instruments are slso to be collected as also the threshing and pounding mortars, the pestles, sieves of various degrees of fineness, earth for the crucibles, charcoal, dried cow-dung cake, retorts made of glass, earth, iron and conch-shells, ¹ iron-pans, &c. 1-18