viqa | विक़ | viqa

viqa | विक़ | m. n. a kind of salt (either factitious salt, procured by boiling earth impregnated with saline particles, or a partic. kind of fetid salt used medicinally as a tonic aperient, commonly called Vit-lavan or Bit-noben, cf. viq-lavaṛa | विक़्-लवऋअ |; it is black in colour and is prepared by fusing fossil silt with a small portion of Emblic Myrobalan, the product being muriate of soda with small quantities of muriate of lime, sulphur, and oxide of iron), Suśr.
viqa | विक़ | m. N. of a country and its king, Inscr.
a fragment, bit, portion (?), W.

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