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proportion of copper combined with half sud of calamine into an earthen vessel together with oil Anacardium bhā. 7, milk of calotropi bha. 7, Echinops Echinata (Jvālā-mukhi-teuţakato) bhā, 7. Next combine these twosilver ga. 2 and copper ga. 10, melt and heat, crush Mungya barley and make bread (out of it). Thrust pieces of orpiment into it, put that bread into an earthen vessel, heat it in a closed crucible and give lid (to it), make
ntle fire, burn (heat) it till there becomes silver. Next make a leaf of tin (Kathir), give orpiment under and over it. Then put + rasa (merci next give it 21 saturations of calotrops gigantea. Mix ga. 1 of silver with 1 tola of copper, Mix half silver. It becomes Narahadi
(24) Combine together pure, (purified) mercury and purified lead. Rub them with the juice of Udarkanni (Ipomaea remiformis) for 1 day. Next rub (them) in the juice of Amarathus (Tādalaja = Tricolour var Tristis) for 1 day., rub (them) with the juice of Rātivoņi. (a kind of vanaspati) for 1 day, in the juice of Araďusā (Ailanthus excelsa Rox) for 1 day. Next make the cake of Adad (a kind of pulse). Put mercury and yellow clay into that cake with the juice of datura and make a pill (bill) of both.
Put killed lead and mercury into the pill, place that pill into an earthen vessel; fill the veesel with salt. Next give it fire for two praharas up to 5 days. Then purify sulphur with double the quanitity of mercury and lead. Put the pill over it, put the leaf of Tamarindus Indica and give it cover. Burn it for 2 praharas upto 5 days. That is, it is processed.
(24x) Make pieces of copper ga. 32 and sulphur ga. 1 just like (the size) of Zyzyphus jujabe (bora); give them 7 patas (roastings) by wrapping them with a piece of paper. Next bring į maund canoali (lime). Give half of it under and half of it over that thing, put sulphur in between them. Put a cover (lid) over it and give (put) a layer of cloth and clay over it.
Next place it into the furnace (Nibha) of a rotter when the furnace becomes cool, take it out. Take out 2 handfuls of lime. There becomes bright sulphur where the paper gets burnt. Take that. Then combine that sulphur, and sulphur of the market ta. 1, and mercury ta. 3 by crushing them. Make a cake (or paste) by crushing them in a mortar. Mix 4 ratis of pilhi (cake or paste) into 1 tola of silver. There becomes 11 carats of
gold.
Melt it by mixing the powder (dust) of copper just equal to silver. There becomes 10 carats-gold.
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