Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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36. More over:
give 16 puțas (roastings) of Triphalā to iron, give 3-3 hard puțas of bark of Melia Azadirachta (neem), Solanum nigrum (Kākamāci), riclipta alb (BhȚmga), F. hispida (malaya = Kālumbari), Enhydra fluctuans (Minākşi) (granthi (dhi)-yaka) respectively.
After that, kill powdered iron by giving it a puţa (roasting) of sulphur of equal proportion, mixed with the juice of piper beetl (Bhujangalatā = Tāmboli) and a puța of Citrus Medica (Kesari = Bijapuraṁ), Bhşmgo = Bhľngarakaḥ, Malayu = Kālumbari, Mināksi=granthiyakah, Bujamgalatā = Tāmbuli, Kesari = Bijapuram, Tikşņaṁ=Saralohamiti
Now only copper
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If lead, tin, ravi (copper), bell-metal, dipped (drenched) in the juice produced from Vitex Negundo (Sinduvāra), copper attains purification (gets purified) by seven times or by the process of pātana (putting it into the powder produced from bulbous root of Sinduvāra Siphābhava (Kanda).
39.
When the heap of tin and lead smeared with the milk of Calotropis gigantea (ark) and sprinkled with the powder of pipal of tamarind and dry bark roasted in little fire of ajāliņdi (goat's dung), then it attains death and becomes thorn-piercing.
Cimcipippali = cimci = āmbiti, kharaṁtiḥ = $uskatvak cūrņam, tena nāgavaṁgapatrāņi āchadya ajalindicumena puţaniyam.
Now the killing of Mica
40.
Jf leaves of black mica are to be heated by a stong fire and cooled down in the kā ñji of barley, they become purified.