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(19) The meaning of do rattā (two reds) and do piyala (two yellows) :
. Crush Cinnabar tā lj, realgar to. 14, realgar to. Ź, Sulphur to. , orpiment to , oxide of arsenic to į, borax (to) , surokhāra (a kind of oxide), (to) + and alum to. j; make a pit of brick measuring & cubic yard. Dig the pit to that extent in which the cup of medicine is fitted. Keep 1 finger of earth below, crush the medicine, and put its powder on the brick in that pit. Put the cup of zinc pai. 6 bhār on it; put pure mercury pai. 3 bhār into it by turning over, turn over (or hold) the cup with light (gentle) hand, put the medicine on that brick and the cup upside down (turn over) on it. Crush brick and close the joint (gap); go on giving pumbhadu (drops ?) of the juice of lemon over it; soak cotton with the juice of lemon and put it on the cup till the cup bursts into pieces. While making fire, keep up to that. First (give) fire little by little. Next on the second day give it fire more and more till the cup breaks up (bursts out) in 3/4/5 days. Up to that go on giving wet cotton (soaked in) lemon juice over it. Next mix lemon of the essence with 1 tola of copper. (There becomes) gold.
(20) Make lump of kathir (Kalai = a kind of tin) to. 1 and mercury to. Next give cayā (drops) to it by putting it into an earthen vessel with tie milk of Holostemma. Rhudii (Kșiraninu jhāg) -9, its stalk (Sing) is big, bigger, than Horse radish (and) it is like Horse radish. (There will be) silver.
(21) Pour (put) zinc 1 sr. in the urine of ass 108 times. Mix both in the urine of ass till there remains only pai 2. bhār of zinc; combine together 1 māsā of the essence and 1 to. of copper. (There becomes) gold.
(22) Keep green Cadaba farinosa Forsk (Teliokand) in oil for 4 days. Keep over it tā 1 of oil more, put lead-1 sr. and cadaba forinosa Forsk { sr. (There becomes) gold.
(23) (Take) the water of the medicinal plant Dudhiu (Glory lily = gloriosa supperbia), it exists in the shelter (led) of tank and river, its leaf is like that of ocimum sanctum (tulsı). There exists baribotha on it. But the smell of its leaf becomes like the smell of dead body., if mercury is put (mixed) into its juice, but șatguņa-sulphup gets assimilated (jāraṇa) into it. It is a great art. Crush it in (the juice of) şātpuda (Seven-leaved) Daturā for 1 day. Next give tayā (drops) to it in an earthen vessel. Silver gets settled; crush it in the juice of Evolvulus alsinoides and Naga-Dhatūra. Give it tayā (drops). There becomes ash (of mercury).
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