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Pour over (it) the juice of citrus lemon 4 sr. and stir it up and mix together. Next give a copper lid to the mouth of the copper vessel. Then put it into Ukaraļā (ềustbin of the village) for 7 (seven) days. Then take it out and get it dried up. Pure essence is accomplished. Money will come on its sale. (58).
The Chemical process of increasing carats
(21). (Take) one between the two-a little lime and sāji (natron); bring green bark of Jambu (Jambulanum) and mango trees. Take out the juice by grinding them. Sprinkle (spread out) it on the gold-leaf having 11 carats by heating it. The original carat (11) increases to 13 and 14 carats.. Thus carats increase. Apply the root or stem or juice of Cle dentrion Siphonanthus and Persian Ricinus communis to tin. (There becomes) silver. Mix 1/4 sr. and 1/4 sr. of the juice of Brahmadandı, and Parasa (Eraşdı) respeclively into sr. of copper. (There becomes) silver (by the mixture of these two (50).
(22) Put paripā (mineral calamine ? a kind of mineral) and borax țā 1, sal-ammoniac țā-1, Surokhāra (a kind of salt ?) țā 1 into the juice of Elephantoprus scaber (galajibhi) and stir (them up). Make three leaves of copper brass and quech them into that medicinal juice) 5 and 7 times, There becomes 5 or 7 carats. If by making light gold (leaf) of carats 3 it is quenced into that rasa,) there become carats 4 and 5 respectively. Quench the leaf of gold, into the oil of Anacardium by melting it, its carat increases to 7. There increases two carats (60).
(23). Give the juice of Haraṇasuri (a kind of vanaspati) by putting tin (in a pot). Silver (61).
(24) Reduce to paste mercury tā 1. and realgar ţā 1 and cook them into an earthen vessel. Put over the combination the gum-the gum Jambu (of Eugenia Jambolanum) Champā. (Michelia champaca) or girmāla (purging of cassia). There becomes the essence. Put it into silver, copper and lead. (There becomes) gold. Then there is Dharasatāri (a kind of plant), press (Choli) it in the juice of the vegetable of Luņix (portulacaea) and grind wax, and put silver on them by melting it. There becomes gold of 14 carats. Grind the seed of Side Cordifolia (Balabija) and make its leaves powdered, put them into copper 11 times by melting it. Gold, good gold is produced (62).
(25). Dip natron (Sāji) tā 1, borax țā. 2, sal-ammoniac tā 3 and lime tā 9 into lt Srs. of water. Next keep that water tā 9 and sulphur tā-3 into an iron pot. Damalanai; gold. Put the juice of Lemparachoenium microcephalum #sr. into tin or zinc by melting it. There becomes silver. (63).
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