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smooth, efficacious to eyes, good in things, good and useful in rasakarma, (Chemical action)1
All kinds of anjana get purified by the process of rubbing it with the juice of Bhṛngaraja. Like realgar the essence of collyrium can be extracted.2
Śrotoñjana is like the apex of valmika (ant's hill). On its breaking it looks like blue lotus from inside. On its rubbing it gives out red (colour), like the red orchre. It is rubbed with the juice of cowdung, cow's urine, clarified butter, honey and fat; it can fix mercury.3
Hema Kuşta or Kamkustha5
The Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Sastra mentions Hemakuṣṭha while the Rasaeatna Samaccaya of Manikyadeva sūri refers to Kamkustha as one of the inferior minerals.
1. Sauviramañjanaṁ dhūmraṁ raklapittaharam himam//
Vişahidhmākṣirogaghnam Traṇaśodhaharopaṇam /
Rasamianam ca pitabham viṣavak rāgadāpaham //
Svāsahidhmäpaham varṇyam vätapittastranāśanam / Srotoanjanaṁ hinam snighdhaṁ kaṣāyaṁ svādu lekhanam // Netryam hidhmaviṣaccdardṛkaphapittāsaroganut //
Puṣpāñjanaṁ snigdham himaṁ Śarvākṣiroganut /
Atidhurdharahidhmaghnam viṣajvaragadāpaham //
Nilamjanaṁ guru snigahaṁ guru snigaham netryam dosatrayāpaham / Rasayanaṁ suvarṇagfinaaṁ lohamārdakakārakam // RS. 3/101-106.
2. Añjanāni viśudhyanti bhṛngarājanūadraviḥ //
Manohvāsattvatṣattamañi jānāṁ pamā Paxut // RS. 3/107-108.
Vamiksaikoāram bhange nilotpaldayuti /
ghṛṣṭam tu gairikacchāyaiṁ lakṣayedn dhruvam // Gośakṛdracamūtreṣu ghṛtakṣaudrvasaāsu ca/ bhāvitam Dalm Satam ca Sighrom badhnati sutakam //
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RS. 3/109-110
SRSS. 5.56, 57, Jatamātrasya hastinaḥ prathamani viṣṭā, te. hemakustham ucyate 15.57.
RS. Manikyadevasuri., Ch. 1-5.
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