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(26) Make a cup of zinc ta 9 and put mercury. Crush or grind salt and give it at the bottom of an earthen pot, put the cup (of zinc) over it. Next give cuvo (drops) of the water of upper layer of sour curd on it up to the time till mercury and cup become one. Then mix vāla 2 of the essence into 1 tola of copper. There becomes gold. (64).
27. (Take) sr. of the juice of white Nagarjuni (Euphorbia pilulifera) and give drops to mercury tã 9 (with that) by putting it into an earthen vessel. That mercury becomes lump. Mix 1 masa of it into 1 tola of Kalahi (tin). (There becomes) silver. The juice of sevenfold Datura dries up the water of Vamga (tin) (65).
(28) Give drops to mercury with the juice of Hariņasūri. Mercury gets fixed. There becomes silver (66).
(29) Purify the thorn-piercing copper leaf and put (quench) it into the juice of Jalast three times by heating and heating it (in fire). It becomes gold (67).
(30) Rub golden copper pyrite with clarified butter, honey and borax. Heat it and take it out. Next combine that copper with equal quantity of gold, there become 11 carats. There increase two carats in light gold. (68).
(31). Melt lead sr. and give drops of urine of ass 5 or 7 srs. over it. Next that lead becomes powder, it pierces the leaves of silver and copper (69).
(32) Bind the tablets of sal-ammoniac pai. 3, impure carbonate of soda (loḍha saji) pai. 3, oxide of assenic (Somal Khāra) pai. 3, alum pai. 3, Samgharayaph (cinnabar) pai 3 and Kaheravo (a kind of mineral) pai. 5 in the juice of stem of candatus (Mogarı Kanda) and put them into an earthen pot. They drink (absorb) the juice of mogarı-2 maunds. Mix the tablets with butter-like mercury-tola 121. (There becomes) gold. (69x).
(33) Bring gymnosporia (Bokala) and get it dried up in the shade. Crush it, weeve it and make 2 srs. of its powder. Melt (liquefy) 1 sr. of tin (trapu) and pour that powder into it. There becomes pure Silver. Pour taruna (trapu) into the juice of Jalasi by melting and melting it. There becomes pure silver. True (70).
(34). Do it in the juice of white Trianthema crystallina (Punarnava) just like that. Silver (71).
The process of making oil of sulphur :
(35) Give 21 patas of ripe leaves of Calotropis (Arkapatra) to sulphur Sr. Oil comes out in the sunshine in a patalayantra. True (22).
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