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2.Salt:
A few Acharyas have considered salt as a special material, having a mixture of all the 5 tastes viz., Type of tastes
Example 1. Pungent
Saunth, pepper 2. Bitter
Neem, Karela 3. Astringent
Amla, Harde, Kattha 4. Sour
Acidic items 5. Sweet
Sugar etc. Salt is normally extracted from soil, mixed with water. Hence it is not considered to be an effective weapon to make 'non living-water. Since water is the birth place of salt, probably therefore, it is not considered to be an effective weapon for annihilating water bodied living-beings. It might be having power to make it dead. As per science, when salt molecule is dissolved in water it ionizes and its ions are covered by hydration envelope it does not go directly in molecular form to block the holes of net-like structure of water-bodied livingbeings. Use of too much quantity of salt may result in this mode of killing by choking the water living-beings. 3.Materials of astringent taste (Trifala, Harde, Amla, Kattha etc.)
All these materials are considered to be feeble weapons. After eating these materials, water tastes pleasant or sweetish, although they themselves are of adverse taste. The color of water can be changed, even by very small amount of these materials. This makes it very difficult to judge beyond doubt, the actual quantity of materials, used in the water to make dhovana. One would always be suspicious about the quantity used. If excess quantity is used in form of fine powder, it may block the holes in the net-like structure of water to make it dead.
The uncertain data about the fineness of the powder & its quantity, doesn't allow one to judge properly, whether the water has become dead or whether the precipitate, which settles down, is due to sufficient dissolved quantity or because of coarse powder. Hence, in practice, it is not recommended to make dhovana by these foreign materials.
Water can make a good colloid by use of these materials in 500 &
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