Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.
Names and synonyms
- Sanskrit
- गर्भद्रुतिगर्भद्रावण
- Hindi
- गर्भद्रुति
- English
- Garbhadruti (liquefying within mercury)
What the text says
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Definition1
A footnote defines garbhadruti as making any substance swallowed (grasa) by mercury become liquid within (in the womb of) the mercury, and quotes: the liquefying of what is swallowed, within, is called garbhadruti.
Where else is this mentioned?
Named 4 times on 4 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.
- Book page 572Chapter 24… ाई हिस्सा योग्य अत्यन्त लाल बीज२ (सुवर्ण) को डालना चाहिए। पश्चात् उसे गर्भद्रुति3 के क्रम से जीर्ण करके (मिलाकर) एक पतले कपडे को दुहरा कर उससे इस रस क …
- Book page 574Chapter 24… माक्षीकचूर्णमपि षड्गुणमत्र दद्यात्। भास्वद्रसेंद्रवरभोजनमल्पमल्पं, गर्भद्रुति3क्रमत एव सुजीर्णयेच्चा॥ 26॥ मध्ये सुवर्णवरमाक्षिकधातुचूणँ, दद्य …
- Book page 575Chapter 24… पारा के भोजन (ग्रास)भूत इस ती़ण चूर्ण को थोडा-थोडा पारा में डालते हुए गर्भद्रुति के क्रम से जीर्ण करना चाहिए। इस प्रकार जीर्ण करते समय बीच में पारा के …
- Book page 577Chapter 24… जीर्ण संस्कार से वह शुद्ध होता है। बंधन प्रयोग करने से सिद्ध होता है। गर्भद्रावण संस्कार से वह एकमेक होकर मिल जाता है। रंजन प्रयोग से वह भी रंजित होता …
Questions and answers
How do the editor's footnotes define bija, garbhadruti and vida?
Bija is a metal that, put into another metal while it is being cooked, gives it its own colour, and pure gold and silver are also called bija; garbhadruti is making what mercury has swallowed liquid inside the mercury; vida is the mixture of alkalis, sour substances, sulphur, cow urine, salts and the like used to digest what mercury has swallowed.
Detailed answer and sourcesAll references
Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.
Quick facts
- Content type
- Principle
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 4
- Chapters
- Chapter 24
- Extraction tasks
- T27
- Record id
- concept_garbhadruti