bul tog
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བུལ་ཏོག
soda, white powder, slow, dilatory, lazy, valley, ravine, kind of soda obtained from the northern deserts of tibet [JV]
1) ja'i khu ba 'don byed cu gang 'dra ba zhig; 2) potash. soda [a kind of salt, salty and sweet tasting, middle melting, by its power kha zas 'ju, glang thabs 'joms, sbos pa gzhil, rma rul ba gso] [IW]
1) ja'i khu ba 'don byed cu gang 'dra ba zhig; 2) potash. soda [IW]
(med) Natron, Trona (Yeshi 2018).
Synonyms : dzi bu ka, bod tsha, byang thog, le bul (Shel gong) byang bul (Yeshi 2018).
Sanskrit : svarji (wisdomlib.org)
bul tog rul gcod rtsam pa myags par byed / ces par dpag bsam ljon par / bul tog 'ju bar byed pa yin / bad kan pho bar rdzing pa sel / srin dang dug thabs mtha' dag 'joms / zhes dang / rang byung pas / bul tog nad rnams thur du 'khru / zhes gsungs / ming dzi bu ka / bod tsha / byang thog / le bul zer / lho byang sogs ma nges gar nas kyang 'byung rung / dkar po cu gang 'dra la lci zhing kha mngar lan tshva ba de sman bul bzang / ro tsha la skyur ba tsha bul yin pas ngan / gang yang yul sa'i kha dog 'byung na ma grungs pa yin bzhu bgrungs byed dgos so // (Shel gong shel phreng, pdf p 383.4)
Illustrations : 'Phrin Las (26_006) bul tog
Natural salt medicine. Trona (Na3H(CO3)2 · 2H2O) derives ultimately from the Arabic "natrum", native salt. Minerals of sodium carbonate or -hydrogencarbonate. Occurs in saline lakes and their evaporites; efflorecences on soils in arid regions (mindat.org).
Svarji can also indicate nitre (wisdomlib.org)
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 07:56, 26 February 2024 (EST)