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Study question (generated from the text)
It is ground in a stone mortar with brick powder and milk and washed with kanji, then tied in a bundle with trikatu, kanji, salts and asafoetida, steamed for three days in a kanji-filled vessel through a dolayantra, and washed with lukewarm kanji.
Detailed answer
The text says the purified mercury, like a demon, eats and digests all metals; the commentary adds that gold put into it mixes at once, its weight does not increase, and the gold cannot be separated again. A quarter part of red bija (gold) is then added and digested by garbhadruti between layers of vida.
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- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 2
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 24
- Extraction tasks
- T27
- Record id
- qa_T27_04