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Hiraboņa. Next, again, give it 7 puțas Ajhijhāļā, put it into a bottle and sealing it up, put it into a Velukāyantra; give it fire for 8 or 12 praharas. On its getting cooled down, take it out. (It is) completed.
(3x) Grind and crush Gujarati orpiment, Bāgadādi patrāli (leaves) and reduce them to small particls. Rub them in a mortar with the juice of onion for 3 or 4 days. When the combination is heated, then it burns like wax, then know that puța as ripe (cooked), then put it into a bottle. Dig a pit measuring equal to the height of the head of a man and fill it up with the horse-dung. Keep the bottle into the horse-dung for 6 months, then take it out; give the essence to the copper leaf. There becomes gold (41).
(4) Mix tin 1/4 sr. and mercury 1/4 sr. with rice meal-milk, curd, clarified butter, urine and stool for 21 days; heat (or burn) the mixture for 1 prahara, put 4 ratīs of the essence into 1 tola of copper by melting it. There becomes gold (42).
(5) Put the juice of Tumbi (long gourd) tā 5, and the juice of Diopyros embryopteris (Tidu) tā 5 seven times into copper (tā) 3 by washing (purifying) it. (There becomes) gold (43).
(6) Reduce. to paste mercury to. 1 and sal-ammoniac to. 1, the juice of cyperus rotundus (gundi), then blow it up in a Naliniyantra three times, (then) take it out. The essence is completed; give 1 māsā of it into tin tola 3. Mercury gets dried up (44).
(7) Take mercury tā 3, grind beetle leaf and arica nụt.and lime together and take out the juice from them, it drinks milk for 1 prahara (i.e. drench the whole thing into milk). Next make sampuța of the root of Ankola (Alangium lamarki-A hexapetallum). Put mercury into it and seal up the sampuța, give three layers of clay and cloth to it and put it on fire of cowdung for 4 gaļhı (24 minutes X4 = 96 minutes). On its getting cooled down, take it out. There will be lime. (45).
(8) Purify mercury tā 3, bind (tie) over 2 thin roots of Alangium lamarkii; keep it into an earthen vessel, put mercury on it, give a seal into the mouth, give it fire of 1 prahara by putting a layer of cloth and clay over it. There becomes pill (gotika), it is crushed, it will be lime. It becomes (looks) like cowdung, it does not fly, (46).
(9). Make powder by grinding three things-the powder of Adiantum (Tripurņi-mukhamali), māmgaphu, and Pegāmi sal-ammoniac-1. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. (There will be) silver (47).
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