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NINTH CHAPTER
(1)
The processing of hill-water is written :
There are four colours of hill-water, viz. (1) white, (2) yellow (3) red and (4) black.
(1) One is kṣaṇavedhi (piercing in an instant), (2) One is praharavedhi (piercing in 1 prahara), (3) One is dinavedhi (piercing in 1 day), (4) One is
linakovedhi (piercing in 8 days)., (5) One is 15 dinavedhi (piercing in 15 days,) (6) One is 90 dinavedhi (piercing in 90 days). (7) One is satmāsa-vedhi (piercing in 6 months) and (8) One is varsadinavedhi (piercing in one year365 days). Three woods have fallen in that water and their leaves also have fallen : Take that (water). Aum Salutation Salutation to Siddhveśvara.
Purify mercury in that water. Keep it for two months, there it becomes like fire when heated. Next give fire to that mercury (i.e.heat it), it becomes limelike. Put it into a brinjal and burn it in fire (give it fire).
It becomes Nāga-Vamgavedhi (capable of piercing into lead and tin). If it, having the size of half of a rice, is taken one can enjoy 100 women. If it is taken with clarified butter, it makes the human body deathless. And if mercury is kept in the hill-water for 12 or 21 days, it becomes gutikā (pill). If that mercury (copper ?) is kept into the mouth, whatever work is done by reciting the aforesaid incantation becomes successful. It is the process of all arts.
(2) Pound vikol or that Khacikoa; if you rub it in cassia angustifolia (Sonamukhi), it becomes Nāga-vangavedhi (capbale of piercing into lead and tin). True. If it is taken having half of the size of grain of rice anything can be eaten. It makes the body deathless, true.
(3) Rub mercury in hill-water. If kept in Khirakanda (bhūmīkuşmāņda) (puerāriā tuberosa) and next kept in hill-water, mercury gets fixed and makes mouth. It is the process of thousand arts. '
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