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∗ The text is not very intelligible. The other ingredients mentioned are tīkshna and kānta, these being varieties of iron; but iron will not amalgamate with mercury. Tīkshna may also mean a kind of saline earth. The old alchemists racked their brains in devising ingenious processes for robbing mercury of its fluidity and imparting to it various colours. Cf. Rasārnava, IX, 2-3, XI, 197-198. *Vide* Vol. i, p. 74 and also "The Hindu method of manufacturing calomel."—*Ibid.* p. 250.