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(5) Combine together kathir (Kalai = tin) 2 srs., sea-salt 3 srs, and milk of Borassus flabellifer (palm) 5 srs. and put the combination into an earthen vessel. Give a lid over its mouth), close up the joint thickly and dry it up. Again, if there becomes a gap, (crack), give clay to the joint. Do as. such so that the smoke does not come out. Place it on the furnace, lit fire under it by setting fire with Tamarind wood.
Give it dipagni till salt and milk attain dryness (or fineness). There becomes silver. The process of Purification of Kathir (Tin)
(6) Make a leaf of Kathir, next bring many flowers of Calotropis gigantea and give (make) a dathar (layer) in a vessel. Put thc leaf over it, put flowers of calotropis, next place it (vessel) on a furnace, keep it on charcoal fire under it for 2 praharas.
Then take it out. Thus is the purification of Kathir.
(7) Make the leaf of Kathir thin, next take alum and Samkhiu Somala (a kind of oxide of arsenic.) Ancro Somala khār (a kind of soamlkhār tā 14 and 2 respectively. Put $ sr. of juice of palm (taļi) into a mātheri'. Give 7 patas (roastings) to that leaf. Dry it up in the sunrays. Next take 5 srs. of pieces of Kalıcūnā (lime of oyster shell) and fill an earthen vessel or jar with it. Bury that vessel into the ground npto its brim. Then put the leaf into the lime of į vessel (jar). Fill lime over, it, then pour tādi (juice of palm). Next seal it up immediately with clay. Keep it for 3 days by sealing up its whole mouth. Next take out the essence. It (leaf) becomes silver..
(8) Make equal parts of each Rāsegha (a kind of metal) - 1., Morathuthu (a kind of poison) 1 and mineral calamine 1 and combine these three-silver bhā. 1, copper bhā. 1 and powder of Rasegha, etc. bhā. 1. Put them on fire, put cinnabar vāla 2 after thir melting. (There becomes) gold.
(9) Drench cinnabar in the juice of Bhuirigani, (Solanum Xantho car... pum) 21 srs, put 200 tolas of its fruit into that cooked mixture. Make the smearing of the gum of purging cassia (or Cassia Fistula) on the leaf (or leaves) of copper and silver three times. Jogividyā-1 or 2
Put together rasa (mineral) of sea salt (Saindhava) and lime (Cūnā) by combining them and pour Kathir (a kind of tin) 108 times. Crush 1 Sr. of
(1) A kind of carthen vessel.
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