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(1)! Make first fine powder of glass bangle and make gund (gum) wet. Make the crucible by rubbing the glass powder with it (gund). Some Ācāryas say, "make the crucible by rubbing the powder with honey instead of gund". Next put the medicines into it (crucible).
This is the process of making a crucible of glass.
(2) Crush magnetic stone, to fine pieces, crush it with human blood and put it into a Jalayantra. Give it a hard seal so that water does not break · (escape). Crush these five articles, viz. earth (soil), husk (fotrā), prahina (not identified), chalk, ghike (not identified), sea-salt (Saindhava) and make a crucible by mixing them. It will be a hard crucible.
(3) Make a crucible by grinding all these articles together—ash of fine coating of rice 2 (parts), chalk-1 (part), Kātho (lime mixed with Khadir)-1 (part), ash of dry wild cow-dung cake 1 (part), salt 1 (part), Kāțaļı 1 (part), jhiko 1 (part) and clay of potter or make a crucible by grinding together salt 1 (part) and ash 3 or 7 parts.3
(4) Make a crucible out of ash of mukha-vastra (mouth-cover)-1 (part), ujalimāți (bright soil) 1 (part) and glass-1 (part) in the milk of Nivadaga.
Take gāra 1 part (clay and cowdung), lime 1 (part), carbon of cloth (Vastra masi), 1 (part), varumāți 1 (part)-a kind of soil (or clay) and make a crucible in milk.
(5) Take Śvetamāți (white soil) part 1, lime, part 1 and flux part } and make a strong crucible (Vajramūsā).5
(6) Take lime 1 (part), clay 1 (part), black kātho 1 (part), ash of rice (Vrahi rakṣā) 1 (part), rust of iron (lohakāța) 1 part and haritaki 1 (part) and make a strong crucible. There are two kinds of crucibleclosed crucible? and open crucible.
- 1. SRSS:, Ch. 2. (Comm.)
2. SRSS., Ch. 7. 16. * Not identified. 3. SRSS. Ch. 11. 2.1. 4. SRSS., 11. 2. 35. 5. Ibid., Ch. 11. 2. 36. 6. Ibid. Ch. 11. 2. 36. 7. Ibid., Ch. 2.4, 9; 3.19. 40, 103; 4.19, 28; 7.23; 8.2; 9.55; 11.25; 11.36;
11. 2.4; 11. 2.5. 8. Ibid., Ch. 2,2; 2.3;22.7.
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