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Answer
Study question (generated from the text)
In summer the sun-scorched mountains exude a red juice like lac from their cracked rocks; tin, lead, iron, copper, silver and gold are named as its six sources.
Detailed answer
Verse 21 compares the flow to the ichor of a rutting elephant. Verse 22 says shilajatu from each later metal in the list has more virtue, and a footnote explains that the metals in mountain rock melt in the heat and take the form of shilajatu. It is taken with triphala decoction, milk and ghee in great disorders of kapha, pitta and vata.
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Quick facts
- Content type
- Question
- Source pages with records
- 1
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 25
- Extraction tasks
- T28
- Record id
- qa_T28_03