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. Then make the essence of poison, cinnabar, calamine, 'red kantaka (a kind of iron), Indragopa (a kind of insect born in the rainy season), wax, and stool of crow and put mercury in the middle, alum and the essence above and below respectively.
Having given glass-powder into it, heat the same in a closed crucible. If it is done, mercury becomes Krāmaņa, accomplishd by this process. "Muha' iti = Udghātanam.
The process by which clear (transparent) colour is brought about into a purified thing by removing its impurities (dirts or dregs) in (with) mercury by purifying, it is called udghātanam I.
'Svete nāgottāranam,' 'pite dānam'. In the case of silver of lead is to be taken out, while in the case of gold, lead is to be given.
By doing thus “Virajinimdo = rasendra = mercury is (purifild). 'accharagaña', iti means = amlavargaḥ (group of acids). 'Vargana' iti cha = Kşāravargah = (group of salts), i.e. urine and salts, etc. fra = rasavargah = group of minerals. gana' = combination of these three groups of articles. 'Samgha' = its assembly which mercury (bhavinah) is fixed (Saṁthuo = stambhịtah). That is, Lord (mercury) is worshipped. “Palittaya-mai (or mada)-mahio' = Mercury purified (worshipped) by the intellect of Padalipta sūrī, an alchemist. O Lord (mercury)! (show the process of destruction of all sins-poverty, disease and old age (sarvaduritas).
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