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(23) Pound (or crush) these three-bhāji (vegetable = 57%) of Vasaņa-1 (a kind of vegetable) āgiu 1 (a kind of vegetable), lajāluchatiu 1 (a kind of vegetable) in mercury. Next rub them in a mortar for 4 praharas. Give it (combination) fire of wild dry cowdung cakes 4. in a sarāvasampuța. Mix 1 tola of mercury (Jāqe = Pārā) with 1 rati of Kalka (essence).
(24) Pound lime of osyster shell-țā-5. and mercury tā 5, with the juice of Aloe vera up to 1 prahara. Give it (combination) fire in a sarāvasampuța. Ash of mercury is thus killed. 84 Vāyus go away. In joints mercury becomes paṇyā.' It becomes vedhaka (piercing).
(25) Give pațas (roasting) to ash of mercury to. 1 and gum of Amjharu 2 to. 1, with Codhārı Hadasāmkali (cissus quadrangularis) for 7 days. Next give them 3 putas (roastings) in the juice of the flower of white sweet-scented oleander (Nerium odorum), get them dried up. Next close the thing into a bottle of glass casket. Give it fire of 50 wild dry cowdung cakes by putting it in a Velukāyantra. It is said by Khambhāti kșatriya. (You) know that.
(26) Rub (triturate) mercury tā 4 in the juice of datura (thorny apple) and in the juice of Aloe vera. Copper gets burnt, there becomes ball (pill) with copper. Next rub it in the oil of datura and keep it in oil. There becomes mouth.
(27) Rub mercury in the juice of Rādhāgali, (a kind of vanaspati), rub it in the juice of datura, next rub the oil of datura in the juice of Radhāgali, fix it, fix it into a bottle for 15 days.
(28) . Put mercury to. 1 into an egg and close it into the powder of wheat (i.e. close the hole with the paste of powder of wheat). Next put 4 sts. of lime into an earthen bowl. Put the egg in the middle and close it by keeping its mouth open. Fill it with water, place it on fire by making fire. Put again water by knowing when water becomes less; give it fire for 21 praharas. Guţikā (pill) is produced.; get it dried up by putting it into milk. There becomes mouth in it. . (29) Rub (or triturate) mercury ță. 5 in the juice of Sesbania gladiflora (Agastapuşpa) for 7 days and in the juice of datura for 7 days. It becomes like thick paste. Put it in citrus lemon and close it. Place it into an iron pan in a Velukāyantra by filling it under and over with sand; give it fire for 32 praharas. There becomes gotikā (pill), it becomes hard. Next make a hole into a green Butea frondosa and put it (gotikā) into it and close the mouth. Give a cup of silver into its mouth; heat and melt it and bind (fix) the tablet or ball (goli), then put a layer of cloth and clay over it and cook it in oil. There becomes mouth in it.
1. Not properly translated. No doubt it means that mercury is helpful in rheumatism, 2. Not Indentified.
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