Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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16. Mercury kept in a plate filled with salt and closed in a
crucible and existing in fire comes up. Thus is pātana. Thus pātana yantra (16). Its second name is thus Damuruka.
Mercury causes Mūrochā (the destruction of the nature) by its dirt, burning by its fire and causes death by its poison. Hence I shall speak or describe the purification of the three natural dosas (faults) dirt or dregs, fire and poison.
18.
Purging Cassia (Kệtamāla), Semecarpus anacardium (Bhalla) and Alangium lamarkii (Ankulla) are the destroyers of the three faults of mercury respectively. Seven Kañcukāsputas of Aloe with its quice should be given to it.
19.
Mercury whose natural energy is lost becomes strong by roastings (puțas) with Vitatthāganakas in its birth (creation). It is to be soaked with Bhūtaṁkaņa (a kind of Vanaspati ?) Uşaņa (citraka)=Plumbago Zeylanica), Khaga (Sunth), asuri (Rāi=mustard seed) Sigruşti (Sarghua) for three days, It becomes bright, if put into the water of husk (of paddy).
20.
Thus it becomes endowed with mouth, beautiful, (bright) & desirer of devouring metals. The Chemists should always apply this (mercury) in the preparation of those chemicals which depend upon mercury.
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Mercury is to be rubbed with the water of iştika (Castor= Ricinus Communis), Triphalā (Amalaka, Haritaki and Bhahedā, Vyoşa (Suņth, maric and pipad), Aloe vera, datura (thorny apple), citrka (plumbago zeylanica), Gandhayaka (Sulphur) Arka (Calotropis gigantea), Brahmadruḥ (Butla frondosa). Karņi (a kind of plant). Nirguņdi (Vitex negundo , Sigru (Horseradish=Moringa pterygosperma vulgaris), Tumbi (= long gourd), Rājasami (bāvacikā=vernohia an the mintica), Kāeamā, cika, Dasāminto, (Daedalacathus purpurasceus a kind of vanaspati) dvikşarā two types of salt), Eranda (Ricinus communis), Tambuli (Pāna (butiuab), Dasa Vajrakanda (Vanasūraņa=wild sūsaņa), Ankula (Alangium