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Rh Take one part of sulphur and half its weight of mercury [The components to be rubbed together.].........The same to be administered with honey and clarified butter. This is called "rasāmrita chūrnam. "

Quicksilver, rubbed with the juice of dhatura s. or piper betle, and applied externally, kills lice. (Poona ed. p. 122.)

Compounded of 14 ingredients amongst which occur the belleric myrobalans, rock-salt, killed copper and blue vitriol—all in the powdered form. (Poona edition, p. 470.)

This very preparation, in identical recension, occurs in Chakrapānī under the name of "Nagārjuna Varti."

The text, which occurs only in the Kásmír Ms. under रसायनाधिकारः। unfortunately in a mutilated fromform [sic], would seem to indicate that the iron is