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They are burnt red hot in a bellows fire, quenched in water of patala and arjuna wood ash, washed seven times with very hot horse-gram decoction, put into milk and powdered; the powder is licked with ghee and sugar.
Detailed answer
Verses 33-34 list the kinds of vajra as vajra, vajraloha, vajrabandha fruit, vajrakapala and vajra stone. The footnotes add that the quenching is done seven times and that they are also heated and quenched in milk seven times, and an editor's footnote prefers reading abhisheka as heating and quenching rather than washing. Verse 35 has the vajra rasayana taken with ghee for six months.
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- Chapter 25
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- T28
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