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(37) Mercury swells in red Convolvutus microphylus or Evolvulus alsinoides (Ctenolepis cersiformis) (Samkhāholi). Melt tin sr. and powder of gynundropis pentaphyla (Tilaghanițā) pai. 1 in an iron cup, keep it and stir it up, with a spoon for 1 prahara, (tin gets) killed; just like this it gets killed in the juice of Euphorbia antiquorum. True. Tin becomes best. True (it is) beneficial. It is done by Indaraji Nāgaji.
(38) Crush lead pai. 1, sulphur pai. 2 and realgar pai. 1 and close them into a small earthen vessel. (Then) give it gajapuțāgni. It (essence) becomes like the colour of the neck of a peacock, it is beneficial. True.
(39) Melt (1) horse tooth, (2) tooth of ass, (3) tusk (tooth) of elephant, (4) the inner essence of the horn of a cow and the inner essence of the horn of a goat and Abrus precatorious (ciņothi). Take out the essence of these six and put i tola of silver into it; it becomes pure silver. svak. If (the essence is) put into tin, there will be silver.
(40) Cut black Bhodala (raw mica) like silver (rūpaia) (coin), crush and make silver (coin). Next spread out 1 māsā of silver on 1 tola (of Bhoqalapatra); give (place) them layer by layer-the leaf of mica (bhodala), over it surokhāra (a kind of salt.), over it the leaf, again surokhāra, again the leaf. Put them into a paper vessel or a light lid (Śarāb), and sprikle water. Give heat to them a little with four cakes of dry cowdung. There becomes gold (hemavarga).
(41) Heat the pieces of sulphur in the light of a lamp by putting them into an iron cup, put (give) a cup of sugar (a chinese cup ?) inside or over the iron cup. Do it as such that it remains 1 finger high. Take the upper cup, as bigger than the lower under cup. It is true that the half of sulphur comes out, dip (drench) iron into it for 2 days. śvetabhasma. (Silver gets reduced to ashes). It is beneficial (when it is mixed with the essence). True.
(42) Fill up powder of copper and grain of sulphur into a doll and sprinkle water over it, it becomes hot. Put (place) the hand over it, say 'your disease is gone' for it has come here. This is miracle. Take a dead leech on Sunday, give fragrance (dhūpa) to it for 8 days from Sunday to Sunday. Next on the second Sunday, turn the leech and burn it with fire of pieces of sticks for cleansing teeth. Next take ashes of the leech. Mix it with sweet on the festival day. Apply just a little quantity of measuring a sesamum on somebody. The effect is enchanting (Vasi) Rși Dudādattāmnayah. (According to tradition of Rși Dudādattāmnaya).
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