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Take a green piece of cloth which is come across on the head of a woman who as has not yet given birth to a child. Wrap mercury with thät, put - it inside an earthen vessel, seal up its mouth. There becomes mercury mākana gamdhimā paisı (vaisi ?) There becomes silver, (or white mercury like butter ?)
*** (36) Crush together these two-suro(Khāra) (a kind of oxide) to. 1 and borax to. 1. Put the whole thing and 2 tolas of Sesamum oil, into a new earthen bowl, and give fire to it. After the burning of oil, again crush (rub) them for the second time. Next make a good crucible. Then put į medicine under and į of it over it. Give Pānil to tunine:2 Next chew bete leaf and spit (on-it), then close the mouth of the crucible. Then give it fire-dhānyāgni for 4 ghadis; it is produced.3 (?)
(37) Rub, Kalicuno (lime of oyster shell) pai. 10 and mercury Pai. 5 for 6 days. Next wash the same. Lunit will come, take that. Next it remains (exists) in lime, take that by blowing in Dolikāyantra. It goes and (mercury) becomes fixed.
(38) Rub mercury țā. 1, alum 1, sulphur (ta) 1 & borax țā 1 together and heat the whole thing in a crucible and give a puta (roasting) of 4 dry wild cowdung cakes. Nāge po, sa. Ra.5 12, put the juice of Sahadevi (Sonchusarnenois) Samkhaholi (Ctenolepis Grasiformes) and Bhāngro tā. 3 (Eclipta alba) into an earthen pan, fill water into it) in such a way that there remains water 3 fingers less (from the brim). At night, put it into rasa (mercury ?), give it fire for 4 ghadis (4x24 = 96 minutes) by increasing iť gradually, next put water into it, go on rubbing it on the hands (palms), it becomes hard.
:-** (39) (Take) a cup of lead weighing pai. 5, (put) takho (black iron-?)
tā. 5 into it, fill four handfuls of sand into it, sprinkle (water) till that cup swells up (is filled up). By making lump, rub Khahipo (not explained) kha. Alpa (javası = Alhaj. Maurorun) tā. 10, tākho tā 5 in the milk of Euphorbia pilulifera for 2 ghaạis. Close it up and give (put) a layer of cloth and clay over it, give it fire, of 3 pieces of dry wild cowdung cakes, again on its getting cooled down take it out and crush it, thus give it 7 puțas 1. Not deciphered. 2. Not explainable. 3. Not clear what is produced. 4. Not explained. 5. Not clear.
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