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best of all and the neuter diamond is the lowest type. There are asras (angles) or 8 phalakas (faces) and 6 corners (Koņa) in the male diamond. It is very powerful; it is like Indradhanusa (rainbow) or lotus and floats
ater. It is sticky (cipața), round or oblong. The female diamond is round, having contracted angle, the heavy diamond-round, obtuse-angled is called the neuter one!
The ash of diamond is useful in fixing or killing and in stimulating the qualities of mercury by combing it with mercuryo
Diamond is purified by digesting it in the decoction of kulattha (Dolicos biforus) or of kodrava (paspalum scrobiculatum) for three hours, in a Dolikāyantra.3
“Diamond is to be macerated four times in the blood of the bug and enclosed in a ball made of the flesh of the musk rat, and then to be roasted in a covered crucible thirty times, or to be heated, hundred times and; lunged in the decoction of kulattha.”4
"Diamond is to be placed in a covered crucible the inside of which has been coated with realgar, rubbed with the decoction of Kuláttha and the juice of Artocarpus lakoocha and roasted eight times in succession in the fire of dry cowdung, cakes. It is then heated hundred times and thrown into pure mercury-the diamond is thus killed and reduced to fine ashes."
1. Vajraṁ ca trividhaṁ proktam naro nāri napumsakam/Pūrvam
pūrvamiha śreştham rasaviryavipākatah/Aşțāsramvā' şačkoņam matibhāsurm/ Ambudendradhanurvāritaraṁ pusvajramucyate//
Tadeva cipitākāram strīvajram vartulayatam/Vartulam
kuņķhakoņāgram Kimcidaguru napumsakam//Rs. 4/27-29. 2. RS 4/33 3. RS 4/35 4. RS 4/36-37. 4. Ibid, 4/38–39
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