Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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41.
Now they are to be given sarāva Sampuga (roasting in Sarāva = lids) with the dry wild Cowdung cakes by rubbing them with the juice of gojihvā (flephantopus scaber), Utpalāniātavi chaganāni.
42.43 Mica is thus purified by the process of puțas (roastings) with
the juice of Euphorbia neriifolia, calotropis gigantea, Ficus Bengalensis, citrus Medica, lemon and three salts-(Varccalā, Saimdhu and sal-ammoniac), Datura, cyperus rotundus (mustā), oxalis corniculata (camgiri), solanum nigrum (Vāyasi = Kālcamāci) and Amaranthus polygamous (Meghanāda = Tanduliya) with kā njikā (sour water) of barley repectively.
Caṁgeri = Ambapatikā (oxalis Corniculata), vāyasi= Kācamāci (Solanum nigrum), Meghanāda = Tamduliyaḥ
(Amaranthus Poly-gamus). 44. Moreover, putting black mica into fire, it is to be put into
cows' milk and powdered in combination with Kahijikā accompanied with six saturations of supth (fat bhāva visvayut)
45.
On giving puțas to it with the water of Triphalā and curuligo orchioides (Musali) again and again it becomes purified and gets killed, and attains purification. Then it becomes useful.
46.
Then black mica certainly gets purified and killed with three-three very strong puțas (roastings) with cow's urine, ocimum sanctum, boraxSurananāle (Amorphophallus componutatus)-nal, yellow mustard seed and (Pandurāji) pasuripů, (a kind of vanaspati ?)
Now Diamond (Vajram)
(47) Heated diamond gets killed when saturated successively in
Amaranthus Polygamous (tanduliya), in the milk, produced from the udder of a cow that has calved only once.