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The seventh chapter consisting of twenty eight formulae deals with the process of purification of mica, medicines for typhoid fever, gonorrhoea, bloody bileousness (rakta pitta), dysponoea and epilepsy, a medicine for eye, scanty urination, jholo (a kind of disease), mabārakhi (a kind of disease), huk, cuk, nala, and barahalla (these disease not yet identified), așțagulma (eight kinds of tumour), giddiness, arthritis and bhramara corangi disease, diet, etc. 3 The process of making pure mica out of black mica, * a Tantric incantation “Aum Hrim..... Kuru Svāhā”, 5 medicine for breathing trouble and semen trouble, 6 prayer to Bagavati for making rain,? some chemical processes, 8 process of making white copper, 9 medicinal pills for curing boils, 10 some medicine, 11 process of making gold of 10 carats, 12 11 carats, 13 14 carats, 14 process of gold-making, 15 process of silver making, 16 process of Madanamudrā, 17 (seal with wax), Menamudrā, 18 (seal with wax), other Mudrās, 19 process of making strong crucible 20 of killing lead and converting it into silver and gold, 21 process of making the chemical essence, 22 processing of mercury and lead,23 process of making water of mercury, 24 and process of making water of Sal - ammoniac. 25
1. Ibid., ch. 7. 1. 2. Ibid., ch. 7, 1. 3. Ibid., ch. 7. 2. 4. Ibid., ch. 7. 3. 5. Ibid., ch. 7. 4. 6. Ibid., ch. 7. 7. Ibid., ch. 7. 6. 8. Ibid., ch. 7. 7. 9. Ibid., ch. 7. 8. 10. Ibid., ch. 7. 9. 11. Ibid., ch. 7. 10. 12. Ibid., ch. 7. 25. 13. Ibid., ch. 7. 11, 25. 14. Ibid., ch. 7. 26. 15. Ibid., ch. 7. 19. 23. 16. Ibid., ch. 7. 12, 19, 20, 22, 17. Ibid., ch. 7. 13. 18. Ibid., ch. 7. 14, 17, 18. 19. Ibid., ch. 7. 15. 20. Ibid., ch. 7. 16. 21. Ibid., ch. 7. 19. 22. Ibid., ch. 7. 21. 23. Ibid., ch. 7. 24. 24. Ibid., ch. 7. 27. 25. Ibid., ch. 7. 28,
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