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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blackmore, John

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​BLACKMORE. (Lieut., 1840. f-p., 14; h-p., 4.)
John Blackmore is cousin of Capt. W. W. Henderson, R.N., C.B.
This officer entered the Navy, 30 June, 1829, as Fst.-cl.Vol., on board the Ramillies 74, Capt. Hugh Pigot, lying in the Downs; and was afterwards, until Dec. 1835, in the course of which month he passed his examination, employed as Midshipman in the Talavera 74, commanded by the same officer, and in the Undaunted 46, and Salamander and Firefly steam-vessels, Capts. Edw. Harvey, Wm. Langford Castle, and Thos. Baldock, on the Home, African, East India, and Mediterranean stations. As Mate, Mr. Blackmore successively joined, in March, 1836, and Oct. 1837, the Minden and Edinburgh 74’s, Capts. Alex. Ronton Sharpe and Wm. Willmott Henderson. After serving on the Lisbon and North America and West India stations, he again visited the Mediterranean, where his exertions throughout the operations on the coast of Syria, including the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre, procured him a commission, dated 4 Nov. 1840. His next appointments were – 14 Feb. and 17 Sept. 1841, to the Vesuvius steamer, and Rodney 92, Capts. Granville Gower Lock and Robt. Maunsell, both in the Mediterranean – and, 19 Oct. 1842, to the Camperdown 104, bearing the flag of Sir Edw. Brace at Sheerness. On 12 July, 1843, Mr. Blackmore had the misfortune to be desperately wounded by an awful explosion which took place on board that ship during the firing of a royal salute in honour of the King and Queen of the Belgians, who were then passing the Nore. On examination, it was found that he had received an extensive laceration over the right angle of the lower jaw, whence protruded a splinter of wood which had penetrated the superior maxillary bone; that he had been further badly hurt with splinters in the scalp, the effect of which was the almost total destruction of the power of hearing on the right side; that he had also been severely burnt in both hands and legs; and that the calf of one leg had been pierced quite through by splinters 12 inches long. In consequence of such dreadful injuries, he was confined for many months to Melville Hospital at Chatham, and, on 6 March, 1844, was awarded a pension of 91l. 5s. He has not been since employed.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Blackmore, Charles

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​BLACKMORE. (Lieut., 1823. f-p., 12; h-p., 24.)
Charles Blackmore entered the Navy, 31 May, 1811, as a Supernumerary, on board the Caledonia 120, flag-ship in the Mediterranean of Sir Edw. Pellew; removed shortly afterwards to the Fame 74, Capt. Walter Bathurst; and subsequently served, as Fst.-cl. Vol. and Midshipman, on the Mediterranean, Home, West India, and North American stations, in the Cerberus 32, Capt. Henry Whitby, Cambrian 40, Capt. Chas. Bullen, Briton 46, Capt. Sir Thos. Staines, Ister 42, Capt. ​Thos. Forrest, Newcastle 60, Capt. Arthur Fanshawe, and Atholl 28, Capt. Henry Bourchier. He was promoted to a Lieutenancy, 11 March, 1823, in the Doterel 18, Capt. Rich. Hoare, but was superseded early in 1824, and has not since been afloat. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Remplissage

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Repeat

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Reprise

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Renn

​RENN, organ builder. See Jardine & Co. vol. iv. p. 685.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Relfe, John

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Rendano, Alfonso

From volume 3 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Repetition

From volume 3 of the work.
​REPETITION (Pianoforte). The rapid reiteration of a note is called repetition; a special touch of the player facilitated by mechanical contrivances in the pianoforte action; the earliest and most important of these having been the invention of Sebastian Erard. [See the diagram and description of Erard's action under Pianoforte, vol. ii. p. 722.] By such a contrivance the hammer, after the delivery of a blow, remains poised, or slightly rises again, so as to allow the hopper to fall back and be ready to give a second impulse to the hammer before the key has nearly recovered its position of rest. The particular advantages of repetition to grand pianos have been widely acknowledged by pianoforte makers, and much ingenuity has been spent in inventing or perfecting repetition actions for them: in upright pianos however the principle has been rarely employed, although its influence has been felt and shown by care in the position of the 'check' in all check action instruments. The French have named the mechanical power to rapidly repeat a note, 'double échappement'; the drawbacks to double escapement—which the repetition really is—are found in increased complexity of mechanism and liability to derangement. These may be overrated, but there always remains the drawback of loss of tone in repeated notes; the repetition blow being given from a small depth of touch compared with the normal depth, is not so elastic and cannot be delivered with so full a forte, or with a piano or pianissimo of equally telling vibration. Hence, in spite of the great vogue given to repetition effects by Herz and Thalberg, other eminent players have disregarded them, or have even been opposed to repetition touches, as Chopin was and Dr. Hans von Bülow is—see p. 7, §10 of his commentary on selected studies by Chopin (Aibl, Munich, 1880), where he designates double escapement as a 'deplorable innovation.'
A fine example of the best use of repetition is in Thalberg's A minor Study, op. 45:—
where the player, using the first two fingers and thumb in rapid succession on each note, produces by these triplets almost the effect of a sustained melody with a tremolo. It is this effect, produced by mechanical means only, that is heard in Signor Caldera's Melopiano as made by Herz in Paris, and Kirkman in London. Repetition is however an old device with stringed instruments, having been, according to Bunting, a practice with the Irish harpers, as we know it was with the common dulcimer, the Italian mandoline and the Spanish bandurria.
A remarkable instance may be quoted of the effective use of repetition in the Fugato (piano solo) from Liszt's 'Todtentanz' (Danse Macabre)
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Arnim, Countess von

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​Arnim, Countess von (Beauchamp).—Elizabeth and her German Garden, A Solitary Summer, The April Baby’s Book of Tunes, The Benefactress, Elizabeth's Adventures in Ruegen, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Ashton, John

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​Ashton, John (1834).—Literary antiquary, etc. History of Chap-books of Eighteenth Century (1882), Humour, Wit, and Satire of Seventeenth Century (ed. 1883), Adventures and Discoveries of Capt. John Smith (1884), Romances of Chivalry (1886), Social England under the Regency (1890), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Avebury, John Lubbock

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​Avebury, John Lubbock, 1st Lord, P.C., D.C.L., ETC. (1834).—Miscellaneous writer. Use of Life, Beauties of Nature, Pleasures of Life (two parts), British Wild Flowers considered in relation to Insects, Ants, Bees, and Wasps, The Origin of Civilisation, and many other works on Natural History, Sociology, and Economics.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur James

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​Balfour, Right Hon. Arthur James, P.C., LL.D., D.C.L., etc. (1848).—Statesman and philosophic writer. A Defence of Philosophic Doubt (1879), Essays and Addresses (1893), The Foundations of Belief (1895), Reflections suggested by the New Theory of Matter (1904), Questionings on Criticism and Beauty (1910).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Austin, Alfred

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​Austin, Alfred (1835).—Poet. Poet Laureate 1896. The Human Tragedy, Lyrical Poems, Narrative Poems, Fortunatus the Pessimist, Alfred the Great, Flodden Field: a Tragedy (1903), etc. Prose works include The Garden that I Love, In Veronica's Garden, Lamia's Winter Quarters, Sacred and Profane Love (1908).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Bagot, Richard

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​Bagot, Richard (1860).—Novelist. A Roman Mystery (1899), Casting of Nets (1901), Donna Diana (1903), Temptation (1907), Anthony Cuthbert (1908), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Arber, Edward

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​Arber, Edward, D.Litt.—Literary antiquary. Has issued many reprints of rare books. English Reprints, English Scholars' Library, ed. An English Garner (1880-83), British Anthologies (1899-1901), A Christian Library (1907).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Archer, William

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​Archer, William (1856).—Writer on the drama and translator of Ibsen; ed. Ibsen’s Prose Dramas, 5 vols., Colleted Works of Ibsen, 11 vols., translated with his brother, Major Chas. A., Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, Life of Macready, Masks or Faces, Study and Stage, Real Conversations (1904), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Ball, Sir Robert Stawell

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​Ball, Sir Robert Stawell, LL.D., F.R.S. (1840).—Scientific writer. The Story of the Heavens (1885), Starland (1889), The Story of the Sun (1893), The Earth's Beginning (1901), etc.
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Anstey, F

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​Anstey, F. (see Guthrie).
# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Guest, Lady Charlotte

​Guest, Lady Charlotte (Bertie) (1812-1895).—Dau. of the 9th Earl of Lindsey, m. in 1833 Sir Josiah J. Guest, a wealthy ironmaster, after whose death in 1852 she managed the works. She was an enthusiastic student of Welsh literature, and aided by native scholars translated with consummate skill the Mabinogion, the manuscript of which in Jesus Coll., Oxf., is known as the Red Book of Hergest, and which is now a recognised classic of mediæval romance. She also prepared a 'Boys' Mabinogion containing the earliest Welsh tales of Arthur. She was also noted as a collector of china, fans, and playing cards, on which subjects she wrote several volumes. She entered into a second marriage in 1855 with Dr. C. Schreiber, but in literature she is always referred to under her first married name.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hakluyt, Richard

​Hakluyt, Richard (1553?-1616).—Collector of voyages, belonged to a good Herefordshire family of Dutch descent, was b. either at Eyton in that county or in London, and ed. at Westminster School and Oxf. The sight of a map of the world fired his imagination and implanted in his mind the interest in geography and the lives and adventures of our great navigators and discoverers, which became the ruling passion of his life; and in order to increase his knowledge of these matters he studied various foreign languages and the art of navigation. He took orders, and was chaplain of the English Embassy in Paris, Rector of Witheringsett, Suffolk, 1590, Archdeacon of Westminster, 1602, and Rector of Gedney, Lincolnshire, 1612. After a first collection of voyages to America and the West Indies he compiled, while at Paris, his great work, The Principal Navigations, Voyages . . . and Discoveries of the English Nation made by Sea or over Land to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth . . . within the Compass of these 1500 Years. It appeared in its final form (three folio vols.) in 1599. Besides it he pub. A Discourse of Western Planting, and he left a vast mass of MS. afterwards used (in far inferior style) by S. Purchas (q.v.}. In all his work H. was actuated not only by the love of knowledge, but by a noble patriotism: he wished to see England the great sea-power of the world, and he lived to see it so. His work, as has been said, is "our English epic." In addition to his original writings he translated various works, among them being The Discoveries of the World, from the Portuguese of Antonio Galvano.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Grub, George

​Grub, George (1812-1892).—Historian, was b. in Old Aberdeen, and ed. at King's Coll. there. He studied law, and was admitted in 1836 to the Society of Advocates, Aberdeen, of which he was librarian from 1841 until his death. He was appointed Lecturer on Scots Law in Marischal Coll., and was Prof. of Law in the Univ. (1881-91). He has a place in literature as the author of an Ecclesiastical History of Scotland (1861), written from the standpoint of a Scottish Episcopalian, which, though dry, is concise, clear, fair-minded, and trustworthy. G. also ed. (along with Joseph Robertson) Gordon's Scots Affairs for the Spalding Club, of which he was one of the founders.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Guthrie, Thomas

​Guthrie, Thomas (1803-1873).—Divine and philanthropist, b. at Brechin, studied for the Church, and became a minister in Edin. Possessed of a commanding presence and voice, and a remarkably effective and picturesque style of oratory, he became perhaps the most popular preacher of his day in Scotland, and was associated with many forms of philanthropy, especially temperance and ragged schools, of the latter of which he was the founder. He was one of the leaders of the Free Church, and raised over £100,000 for manses for its ministers. Among his writings are The Gospel in Ezekiel, Plea for Ragged Schools, and The City, its Sins and Sorrows.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hale, Sir Matthew

​Hale, Sir Matthew (1609-1676).—Jurist and miscellaneous writer, has left a great reputation as a lawyer and judge. Steering a neutral course during the political changes of his time, he served under the Protectorate and after the Restoration, and rose to be Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He is mentioned here as the author of several works on science, divinity, and law. Among ​them are The Primitive Origination of Mankind, and Contemplations, Moral and Divine. His legal works are still of great authority. Though somewhat dissipated in early youth, he has handed down a high reputation for wisdom and piety.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hales, John

​Hales, John (1584-1656).—Theologian, b. at Bath, and ed. there and at Oxf., became one of the best Greek scholars of his day, and lectured on that language at Oxf. In 1616 he accompanied the English ambassador to the Hague in the capacity of chaplain, and attended the Synod of Dort, where he was converted from Calvinism to Arminianism. A lover of quiet and learned leisure, he declined all high and responsible ecclesiastical preferment, and chose and obtained scholarly retirement in a Fellowship of Eton, of which his friends Sir Henry Savile and Sir Henry Wotton were successively Provost. A treatise on Schism and Schismatics (1636?) gave offence to Laud, but H. defended himself so well that Laud made him a Prebendary of Windsor. Refusing to acknowledge the Commonwealth, he was deprived, fell into poverty, and had to sell his library. After his death his writings were pub. in 1659 as The Golden Remains of the Ever-Memorable Mr. John Hales of Eton College.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Habington, William

​Habington, William (1605-1654).—Poet, s. of a Worcestershire Roman Catholic gentleman, was ed. at St. Omer's, but refused to become a Jesuit. He m. Lucia, dau. of Lord Powis, whom he celebrated in his poem Castara (1634), in which he sang the praises of chaste love. He also wrote a tragi-comedy, The Queen of Arragon (1640), and a Historie of Edward IV. His verse is graceful and tender.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hailes, Dalrymple David, Lord

​Hailes, Dalrymple David, Lord (1726-1792).—Scottish judge and historical writer, was b. at Edin. Belonging to a family famous as lawyers, he was called to the Bar in 1748, and raised to the Bench in 1766. An excellent judge, he was also untiring in the pursuit of his favourite studies, and produced several works of permanent value on Scottish history and antiquities, including Annals of Scotland (1776), and Canons of the Church of Scotland (1769). He was a friend and correspondent of Dr. Johnson.
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Hake, Thomas Gordon

​Hake, Thomas Gordon (1809-1895).—Poet, b. at Leeds, ed. at Christ's Hospital, was a physician, and practised at various places. His books include Madeline (1871), Parables and Tales (1873), The Serpent Play (1883), New Day Sonnets (1890), and Memoirs of Eighty Years (1893).
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# A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

​Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (1796-1865).—B. at Windsor, Nova Scotia, was a lawyer, and rose to be Judge of the Supreme Court of the Colony. He was the author of The Clockmaker, or Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville, and a continuation, The Attaché, or Sam Slick in England. In these he made a distinctly original contribution to English fiction, full of shrewdness and humour. He may be regarded as the pioneer of the American school of humorists. He wrote various other works, including The Old Judge, Nature and Human Nature, A Historical and Statistical Account of Nova Scotia, etc. In 1856 he settled in England, and sat in the House of Commons for Launceston.
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# A History of Hindu Chemistry Vol 1/The Ayurvedic Period/Chapter 4

CHAPTER IV
Chemistry in the Vagbhata.
A typical example is contained in the following recipe:
Sulphate of copper, red ochre, realgar, orpiment sulphate of iron, &c., are recommended for external application for genital sores.
Preparations of Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron and Lead
Gold, copper, silver, iron or tin are to be taken with the myrobalans, rock-salt and honey, &c.
Gold, silver, copper and iron are to be taken in conjunction with bitumen and milk.
Take 64 parts of stibium and one part each of ​copper, iron, silver, and gold; now roast them in a closed crucible, &c.
Take 30 parts of lead, 5 parts of sulphur, 2 parts of copper and orpiment each, 1 part of tin and 3 parts of stibium. Now roast them in a closed crucible.
[Here as well as in the preceding sloka, we have distinct mention of अन्धमूषा or a crucible with the lid on. This is one of the preparations which can be brought into line with those of the Tāntric and Iatro-chemical periods.]
Preparation of Alkali and Caustic Alkali
[As Vāgbhata borrows his method of preparation of alkali almost word for word from Susruta, it is quite superfluous to reproduce it here.]
Use of Mercury
Take equal parts of mercury and lead and make them up into a collyrium with their equal weight of stibium and camphor. [This is perhaps the only instance in which the mention of mercury is found.]
* ↑ "स्रोतोञ्जन" Srotonjana is evidently stibnite or the native sulphide of antimony (See p. 53); Dutt translates it, we know not on what grounds, as calx-spar.
* ↑ Uttarasthánam, Ch. XIII, p. 20-21.
* ↑ Ibid, Ch. XIII, p. 31-32.
* ↑ Sútra., Ch. XXX.
* ↑ "Uttarasthánam," Ch. XIII, 36. This very formula, with but slight variations, occurs also in Rasaratnasamuchchaya, Ch. xxiii, 46.
# A History of Hindu Chemistry Vol 1/The Transitional Period/Chapter 1

The Transitional Period
(From 800 A.D. to circa 1100 A.D.)
Chemistry in the Siddha Yoga of Vrinda and in Chakrapani
CHAPTER I
VRINDA
(Circa 900 A. D.)
Preparations in which Sulphide of Copper and Æthiops Mineral Figure
Sulphur, copper and the pyrites are to be pounded together with mercury and subjected to roasting in a closed crucible and the product thus obtained to be administered with honey. This is known as "parpati tāmram."
​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.)
A Collyrium
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."
A Process of Killing Iron
The text, which occurs only in the Kásmír Ms. under रसायनाधिकारः। unfortunately in a mutilated from, would seem to indicate that the iron is ​to be first ignited in the fire and then macerated in the juice of the emblic myrobalan, and trewia nudiflora and exposed to the sun, and again to be macerated in the juice of certain other plants and then to be rubbed in a mortar.
* ↑ This preparation does not occur in the Poona edition, but is to be found in the Kásmír Ms. under रसायनाधिकारः,
* ↑ Vide Kásmír Ms. under अम्लपित्ताधिकारः, omitted in the Poona edition.
# A History of Hindu Chemistry Vol 1/The Transitional Period/Chapter 2

CHAPTER II
CHAKRAPANI
(Circa 1060 A. D.)
Black Sulphide of Mercury (KAJJALI) or Æthiops Mineral
The first process consists in the purification of mercury.
"Quicksilver, rubbed repeatedly in the juice expressed from sesbania aculeata, ricinus communis, zingiber and solanum nigrum, becomes purified."
"Take one part of mercury and one part of sulphur, rub the two together in a mortar and thus prepare kajjali or rasaparpati."
Tamrayoga (lit. Powder of Copper Compound)
"Take a thin leaf of Nepalese copper and embed it in powdered sulphur. The substances are to be placed inside a saucer-shaped earthen-ware vessel and covered with another. The rims are luted with sugar or powdered rice-paste. The apparatus is heated in a sand-bath for three hours. The copper thus prepared is pounded and administered with other drugs."
Process of Killing Iron
"I shall now describe the science of iron as promulgated by the sage Nāgārjuna." [A tedious process given with wearisome minutiæ of which the substance only is reproduced below.]
A bar of iron is to be rubbed with the levigated powder of the following vegetable products among others: the belleric myrobalans, clitoria ternatea, vitis quadrangularis, boharhaavia diffusa and verbesina calend. It is then strongly heated to the fusion point and plunged into the decoction of the myrobalans. The iron is then powdered by being beaten with an iron hammer. The powder ​is then digested in the decoction of the myrobalans and roasted repeatedly in a crucible.
Mandūra or Rust of Iron.
Rust of iron is prescribed in combination with other drugs.
Recipe for a Soap to be used as a Depilatory.
The ashes of schrebera swiet. and cassia fist. are to be mixed with lime from burnt shells and lixiviated with the urine of the ass. The lye is then to be boiled with a definite weight of mustard oil.
Preparation of Caustic Alkali
[Much the same as in the Susruta]
Calx of Silver
In a preparation named "yogarāja" रूप्यमल or calx of silver (probably in the shape of sulphide) figures as a component.