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(24) Crush out the juice of Sonchus oruenois (vernonia cinerea less Sahadevi), cutoria ternatea (girani = garani) and Evolvulus alsinoides (Kalāphul) and Edipta alb (Bhāngrā) and give tüyā to mercury with it; (it) becomes ash.
sy and evolvareas alsinoides (Ka
(25) Rub mercury tā 4 with the juice of red Ricinus communis (Rakta eranda)-rub it with the juice of gandharva (Ricinus communis) for 3 praharas. Bind the pill or ball of it. Next make powder of gloriosa superba (Dudhiu vachanāga) by crushing it. Then make 2 vāțakis (cups) by crushing lead with the milk of calotropis gigantea (arkadugdha). Do as such that Sampuța (sarā = lid) sits fully on it, put the pill into it, close the lid and dry it up. Next get it dried up by wrapping or (vīti) it (with) powder, (Kanake). Next get it dried up by wrapping or mingling in (with) cowdung. Put it into the earth by digging a pit of 12 angulas' depth. Give it fire of dry wild cowdung cakes for 12 ghaạis (1 ghadi = 24 minutes) in the month of Bhādra. It is true. Thus Rūhāgnāhyā mudrikā (ring) is held on (Put on) the waist, there becomes fixation of penis (Sthambhanam), own conception on disease lessness, (Svakalpam).
(26) Make pieces of sulphur, and put them into a hole of a big citrusllus colocynthis by making it (in it), press (give) a lid dāvara) (into its mouth) by putting the gir (kernel) of it and close it. Cook it in the fire of 4 or 5 pieces (of cowdung cakes). Thus cook the same in new and new citrus colocynthis 108 times. Mix 1 māsā of the essence with one tola of copper. There becomes gold.
(27) Sulphur is fixed in 108 pieces of big ripe Euphorbia nivuiia. Mix copper 1 tola with the essence-1 māsā. Make settled and mix į st. of the juice of Aghāļā (Achyramthus), mercury țā-5, 24 Srs. of the juice of Neem for 7 days, dry up the juice, give heat of fire to it. Mercury becomes butter-like with fire. True.
Triturate it (Mercury) in a red earthen Kunda (vessel) and place it in a kuba (shell). The pill (of mercury) thus gets separated.
(28) give 64 puțas to cinnabar sr. with the juice of śakandarā (Soragali) 4 Sr. It is a great piercer; crush Śakandarā which is Soragali and extract (put out) the juice and mix it with cinnabar, get it dried up. Give 64 puțas (in this way). Crush the copper-piercing cinnabar tā 5 and cissus quadrangularis (Hadasākala) and put the mixture into an earthen vessel, put pieces of cinnabar into it. Cover Tā. 5 Cissus quandrangularis (Hadasākala) with the second crucible and wrap it with a piece of cloth; give (put) it 2 or 3 layers of clay over it. Make powder and lump of 1
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