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FOURTH CHAPTER
1. There will be gold and gold pieces of established stone of Zājavarada, it is tā 3-crush all these and make them fine (by grinding). Rub them with the milk of ewe (she-sheep) for 4 praharas. Next bind pill of 1 tola (with it). Then at the time of action, put together honey, clarified butter, borax, molasses and dali (1) of guñja-these five just equal to the pill and rub them in a mortar for 1 prahara. Then make leaf of gold-1 tola by rubbing. Rub that pill, make its smearing 1 tola the leaf. Make fire of 10 srs. of dry wild cowdung cakes, put the leaf into a kavaciyantra (a kind of apparatus). Put (give) a layer of cloth and clay over it and give it fire. On its getting cooled down, take it out. Next again smear the leaf with tola of that (pill), give it fire of 10 srs. of dry wild cowdung cakes in a Kavaciyantra, take it out on its being cooled down. Again make smearing on it (leaf) with 1/4th tola of the pill and heat it in a kavaciyantra on fire of 10 srs. of dry wild cowdung cakes. Take it out on its getting cooled down. There will come Rs. 12 on the sale of the leaf of gold. There will come Rs. 16.00 on its sale, (if) its carat gets increased (18).
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2. Give 21 puțas (roastings) to raw salt with the juice of white Bandali and rub it. Next, first bind the tablet of mercury with Mora Thuthu (Thuthā). Spread (give) that salt at the bottom in a crucible. Put the tablet (of mercury) in the centre and give the salt over it. Seal up the crucible and give it fire for ghaời 1. That tablet becomes silver. (19)
3. (Take) 1 sr. of the juice of the tender leaves of Babul, Pai. 1 of the juice of the tender leaves of Jambū (tree), pai. 1 of the juice of red leaves of Oleander (Kaņera), pai. 1 of the juice of the leaves of piper beetle (Nagayallı), and crush pai. 1 of Māgaphula, half of it, and put it in the juice of the four medicines. Make paste (lump) of copper māsās 9 and zinc māsās 3. Keep three gathi bāțis of that rasa separate. Then melt that lump and quench it into separate rasas (juices) thrice, its blackness is removed. There will be gold. (20)
4. Make lump of these four things-silver mā. 3, zinc, mā. 3, Kathir (tin) māsā 3, and lead mā 3 and put it into an earthen pot. Next melt it and put 4 māsās of mercury into it. Then crush 4 māsā of Sámkhiu somala, and turn it over 5 or 7 times and go on putting it into the mixture by tips.
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