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Besides these Yantras, there are references to Nalanıyantra, Kavacıyantra3, Sineyantra", Tikaliyantra”, Sateyantra, jhājhoyantra?, and Bhubhara (dhara ?) Yantra. But no description on the process of their making has been given in the Suvarņa-Raupya-Siddhi-Šāstra."
Nalaniyantra of this work may be identified with Nālikāyantra of the Rasaratnasamuccaya of Vāgbhața.'
Mercury is filled up with proper medicine into an iron tube. By closing the mouth of the tube, it is put into a Lavaņayantra. Again the mouth of Lavanayantra is closed by lid with a layer of cloth and clay and the whole thing is cooked inside. The name of the apparatus is called Nālikāyantra. 10
The process of making glass Crucible
and
The SRSS. refers to two kinds of Mūşā, viz. Andha-mūşālx Udha mūṣāły. (closed and open crucibles)
2. SRSS, Ch. 5. 6. 3. Ibid., Ch. 4.1; 12.3. 4. Ibid.,, Ch. 6. 31. 5. Ibid., Ch. 5.1. 6. Ibid., Ch. 4. 48. 7. Ibid., Ch. 3-81. 8. Ibid., Ch. 11. 11 9. Rasaratna Samuccaya, 9/40, 10. “Lohanālagatam sūtam bhāņde lavanapurite /
Niruddhaṁ vipacet prāgvannālikāyantramuritam ||
Rasaratnasamuccaya, 9/40. 1x. SRSS. 2.4; 2.9; 3.19; 3,40; 3.103; 4.14; 4.28; 7.23; 8.2; 9.55; 11/25;
11/36; 11. 2.4 XI. 2.5. ly. SRSS. Ch. 8.34; 9.11; 9.54; 11. 2.20; 3.85; 6.33; 7.12; 7.21; 8.3; 11.
2.2; 10. 47; 12. 28; 13. 14. 10
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