Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

Page 55

46
or chemists) in time, viz. leaf, flower. fruit, bark and root mainly.
10.
There are seven kinds of oil. viz oil of sesamum, linseed, mustard, ricinus communis, pongamia glabra, thorny apple (datura) and panicum miliceum (tila, alasi, Sarşapa, Vātavairi, Karaṁjā, dhatturaka, Kamguni). Then there are 4 kinds of clarified butter produced from the milk of cow, she-buffalo, she-goat and ewe (she-sheep).
U
.
Wherever some product of animals is necessary, it should be taken by preserving the life of animal or when it dies accidentally.
12.
There are three natural faults (defects = impurities) of mercury viz. dirt, fire and poison. Murcchā is the destruction of the nature of mercury caused by dirt, which is done by rubbing it with natron, yāvaguka, patupaṁcaka (five salts-Kāca, Saindhava, Samudra, bida and Sauvarccala), amla, etc. in a morter for 3 days, its burning is made by fire and killing is done by poison.
13.
Cassia fistula (Rājavşkşa) kills (antidotes) dirt in mercury, fire kills the burning defect (defect of fire) in it, Alangium Lamarkii (Ankulla) kills poison in it. Poison should be killed with seven putas (roastingson saturations) of Aloe vera.
Atah pravakşyāmi pāradasya tu mūrcchanam Mürcchanaṁ doşarahitam saptakañcukanāśanam Svarjikā yāvagukaśca tathā ca patupañcakam Amlausadhāni sarvaṁ sūtena saha mardayet Khalve dinatrayaṁ tāvadyāvannaştatvamāpouyāt Svārupasya vināgena mūrcchanaṁ tadihocyate
30-32. Rasaprakāśa Sudhākara vide pracin Bhāratmen Rasāyana Kā Vikāsa,
p. 437, fn. 2.