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(Phaseolus radiatus), put it on a piece of dry cowdung cake and give the second piece over it. Next give 1 or 2 pieces of dry cowdung cake and make fire. On its getting cooled down, take it out. That mercury becomes patāsā (a kind of sweet) like, getting swelled. If I rati of it is taken, there takes place an appetite. Mix 1 rati of the essence with 1 tola of copper. There becomes gold.1
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Rub sulphur pai. 5 with the juice of Kesuphula for 4 prahras. Next after 1 or 3 days, put it into a bottle, give muvala (hair) into its mouth, keep it into the mouth of the second bottle. Put the mouth of the bottle in a patalayantra" and give fire under it; take out (squeeze) oil. Smear that oil on the copper leaf, dry it up like papaḍi (thin crisp cake made of flour mixed with spices) on fire. Put 5 or 7 drops of oil on it. There becomes gold.3
Rub sulphur tola 1 and mercury tola 1. with the juice of Amaraveli (Cassythafiiliformis) for 1 day. Rub them in a plate with the wood of Limba (Citrus lemon) in the shade. Do not expose it in the sunshine, do as such, hold it in the sunshine in Caitra Vaiṣākh, oil comes out of Day bod it, smear leaf of copper with it. There becomes gold.+
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Put ash of conch-shell into mercury by reducing it (conch) to powder and into oxide of arsenic (Malla) by taking mercury. Mix good alum into milk, mereury-1 tola, lead and oxide arsenic-hr. masa.
Take sulphur ta. 1, natron tā, 1, lime ta 1, salammoniac tā 1, oxide of iron a 1, orpiment ta 1. Make lump of mercury and zinc. Next crush the medicines and mix them into copper. Then take wood fordia floribunda (Dhahaḍiphula) and put all together, put Dhahaḍiphul tā 4 into copper to. 1 and zinc tola (in the essence). There will be gold.
Combine tin, copper, zinc, lead and mercury and the juice of cedru deodar (and make the essence by rubbing them). Put 1 rati of the eseence into 16 tolas of copper. There will be gold.
1. SRSS., Ch. 4. 12
2. Flower of Butea frondosa saffron coloured flowers.
3. SRSS., Ch. 4. 14
4. SRSS., Ch., 4. 18
5. SRSS., Ch. 4. 23 6. SRSS., Ch. 4. 25
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