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it in Dolikāyantra. It becomes hard. Put the juice of Cymnema sylvestro into the mouth and take out the juice by chewing it. Thus is the tradition.
Make the thorn-piercing copper leaf, heat and quench it into salt and sal-ammoniac 5 times. (There will be gold ?)?
Process of piercing the leaves of silver and copper. Melt lead ;sr. and give drops of urine of ass. 5 or 7 srs. over it. Next that lead becomes powder; it pierce's the leaves of silver and copper.
Rub mercury tā 5 in the juice of Mānikanaritā (a kind of vanaspati) tā... 5 in the juice of phyllanthus niruri (Bhui āvilā) tā. 5, in the juice of poinciana elata (Saṁdesarā) tā. 5, in the juice of Visakhāparā (Horse purslane) tā. 5 and in the juice of Tribula Ter (gokharu) ţā. 5 by crushing (them). Put the whole thing into a bottle in a Velukāyantre and give it fire for two praharas. Close the mouth of the earthen vessel. This is a best combination 3
Fry or roast (Bhadatha) oxide of arsenic ţā. 6 into three branches or Euphorbia nivuia of (or nerifolia). Give powder of wheat 21 times over it, give cowdung over it, put the standing branch into the fire. Place dry wild cowdung cakes on all sides. Like this turn it round. Next make ash of Keli (Musa sapientum) 5 srs. Make water of Khāra (salt or ashes) and boil it. Pour it into an earthen vessel and put a piece of seal into its mouth. After that, place it into a Dolikāyantra and (heat it) till the water of khāra gets burnt (dried up). Next bring gudasarit of "Nalini of Chali, Make a hole into it and put oxide of arsenic into it, give powder of wheat and cowdung cakes on all sides.
Next the essence is accomplished?
Essence Make wet (drench) opium, copper, lead, orpiment tā. 2. sulphur 4 (tā), thutho (a kind of poison) ța. 4. and lime of oyster shell (Kalicuno)-ta. 6 in the milk of calotropis gigantea and close the crucible by putting them into it. Give it fire of 1 topali (basket) of dry wild cowdung cakes.
1. SRSS., Ch. III, 40. 2. SRSS., Ch. 3.73. 3. SRSS., Ch. 6.29. 4. Not yet identified 5. Not identified
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7. SRSS.. Ch. V. 6
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