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Amongst them kharaloha is rough and free from hair-like lines and has a quick silver-like fracture and breaks when bent. Sāraloha is that which presents a sharp edge and does not break when bent. It is produced in the mine of yellow soil. There is found curved lines in it."
Hệnnāloha is that which is of mixed colour-black and yellow, in which there are marked curved lines like those of caạcubija and which is hard to break. There are three categories of the lines (pogara) mentioned here-amga, shadow, and vamga, This pogar is shiny and breakable.3
Tron, whose pogara (lines of structure) is hard like diamond, glossy, associated with fine lines thick (condensed) and heavy whose colour is black is called vajira.
Iron which is of blue and black tinge, heavy, glossy and associated with ray and whose edge does not break when struck with iron is called kalayasan. Kānta loha (magnetic iron) is of five kinds, viz, bhrāmaka, cumbaka, karşaka, dravaka and romakānta. Each of them has six divisionsekamukha (possessed of one face), dvimukha (two-faced), trikha (threefaeed), catur-mukha (four faced), pascamukha (five-faced) and sarvatomukha. (many-faced to attract iron). Further, there are three divisions of each of them according to the colour of each, viz., yellow, black and red.
1. Paruşam Pogaronnuktam bhamge Pāradavacchavil
Namane bhamguram yattatkharalohmudáhịta'm//
Ibid. 5–75. 2. Vegabhaniguradhāram yatsārāloham tadiritam/
Pogarābhāsakaṁ pāņdubhumijaṁ sāramucyate//
Ibid. 5/36. 3. Krşņapāṁduvpuścṁcubījatulyorúpogaram/
Chedane caliparusam hỉnnālamiti kathyate// Amgacchāyā ca vamgam ca pogarasyā bhidhātrayam/) Cikuram bhamgaram lohātpogań tatparaṁ matam
Jbid. 5/77–78. 4. Pogarairvairasa mkāśaiḥ sūksma rekhaiśca sāndrakaih/
Nicitam syāmalāmgam ca vajiram tat prakırtitam ||
Rs. 5/79 5. Nilakršņaprabham sāndraṁ masmaṁ guru bhasurām/
Lohāghāte, apyabhabhamgatmadhāraṁ Kālāyasaṁ matam/
Ibid. 5/80. 6. Bhrāmakaṁ oumbhakaṁ caiva karşakaṁ dravakaṁ tatha
Euam caturvidhaṁ kāntaṁ romakāntam ca Pamcamam/, Ibid. 5/83.
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