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What is the lamp (dipana) process described near the end of the chapter?

अध्याय के अंत के पास बताया गया दीपन योग क्या है?

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Lamp vessels are smeared with lac juice and the sulphur and poison groups ground in breast milk; mercury mixed with gold bhasma, tied in a fine cloth, is placed in the vessel, and the lamp is lit with karanja and sesame oil.

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It follows the instruction to take a little of the tested perfected mercury with a quarter part of gold bhasma, which the dipana process helps to digest quickly. The text says the smearing makes the mercury very bright and more powerful, and the commentary that perfected mercury changes every dhatu of the body.

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Chapter 24
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T27
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