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FIFTH CHAPTER
(1) Metal gets (or is) killed with oil of orpiment. Crush 1/4 sr. of oipiment and į pai of sal-ammoniac, put them into a bottle and place it in a Tikaliyantra. Oil comes out. All metals get killed with orp realgar. (39).
(2) Sal-ammoniac is fixed in the juice of Umbara (fig tree); crush Morthuthu (a kind of poison) in the juice of croton tiglian (Dānti) and give it 7 puțas. The essence is produced. Alum is fixed in (the juice of) Ašvakanda (whose stem is like the penis of horse), give 7 puțas of cloth and clay. The essence is produced.
Polad (steel) is fixed in the juice of Amațhi (Ipomoea sepiaria), the essence is produced.
(Take) mercury ța. 1, a fine strong (hard) piece of cloth-1 cubit (in lengh): give 5 or 7 putas of dew watet (khāra) of gram plant (Cinā). Khar makes it very hard. Put mercury into the clothing by wrapping it. Next sew the cloth. Then putting the cloth into a new earthen vessel, seal it up and keep the earthen vessel into the dustbin of the village for 2 or 3 months. The cloth getting burnt will be reduced to ash. That ash dries up (sucks) kathir (tin) (40),
(3) Kill mercury, sulphur, kaņeri realgar, orpiment and oxide of arsenic with the juice of Āristo lochia bracteata, apply the essence to silver, it becomes gold. It is said by Vitarāga (The dispassionate),
Naiņeti :- Mercury, sulphur, Kaņeri, realgar, orpiment and oxide of arsenic.
Combine mercury tā 8, sulphur tā 8, kaņerin manasila (realgar) tā 4, orpiment tā 2 and oxide of arsenic tā 1 and give 7 putas to combination with the juice of small and large Euphoriba pilulifera; next give the combination 7 pūtas, with the juice of leaf of piper betle. Next put lime (Kathocūno) into it and take out the juice. Give it these puțas-7 puțas of Datura, 7 puțas of the juice of Ajhijhāļā, then 7 puțas of Dolichondron falcata, 7 puțas of Peniroyal (Spilanthus oleracia), 7 puțas of the juice of
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