A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c32.s16.27

v2.c32.s16.27

* The reading of the text is very corrupt. Garbe gives as many as 12 variants ; that adopted by him seems to be on the whole reliable as also his rendering : " Wenn er mit anderen steinen oder eisernen Hammern geschlagen nicht zerspringt." On account of its brittleness a diamond will readily be shivered into splinters under the blow of a hammer. The following extract from Bauer and Spencer's "Precious stones" (pp. 129-130) may prove of interest.—