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harmful materials like arsenic and fluorides etc.) is considered to be more useful, rather than being regarded as dirty water. Similarly, water mixed with ash or some other specified foreign materials, as per standard procedure, should be considered to be fit for consumption. All the foreign materials, which are prescribed to be used for making Dhovana, are edible materials except ash (burnt solid fuel). Ash is normally alkaline. If it goes into stomach, in small quantity, in form of colloids, it will not harm in any way. Moreover, Dhovana is normally used after proper settling process, so that the un dissolved solids are separated out from water. Because of alkalinity of ash, it may help in reducing acidity in stomach, when it reaches there in colloidal state. Dhovana is non-living water. The mobile micro-organism, contained in the water also becomes non-living. Similarly, the oxygen radicals, present in the living-water, get destroyed during the process of making Dhovana. By using such radical-deficient water, it is found that the "emotions” of the user remain at low level! In Dhovana, dirt of bio-cells is not present there. Hence it is considered to be quite fit for drinking Q.10: Can one keep Dhovana or boiled water in Earthen pots? A 10:- If the pots remain wet and unstirred for prolonged periods
continuously, chances are that algae/fungus (Nigoda) starts building up on its surface. The household is then required to use his commonsense. For using earthen pots four types of
situations arise:1a) We take all possible care to ensure that no fungus develops on the
surface of the pot by i) Rubbing thoroughly everyday morning with the hand, the inner
and outer surfaces of pot and then washing it. Because the pot wall is porous, the pores may be blocked after sometime due to everyday rubbing action by hand. In that case, water will not get cooled (due to non availability of trapped water in pores for evaporation and cooling). Otherwise, after sometimes, fungus starts developing in the pores unnoticed. In absence of vigorous hand rubbing, the fungus grows unobstructed.
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