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which has not given birth to any kid, for 12 praharas. Take an earthen bowl which may contain (hotch potch) of 1 sr. Put tablets into that and close it with lid, give it fire for 6 praharas. It becomes of Vermillion colour. Next take it out and put mercury pai 1 (into it), chew ripe betel leaf and Kathocuno (lime) and go on spitting it, go on grinding it for 12 praharas. Next close it up and give it dipāgni for 6 prbharas. Close the bowl with a (Kodiu) by covering it. By giving lid into the the mouth of the bowl. Put chalk, Kathocuno (lime) and molasses as done before, again seal it up with such mudra (device = seal). By killing lead in the leaf of Neem, next place it again in the juice of cuscuta reflexa (Amsțavelli).
Nā. Raghunātha giriu.
(43) The process of Calomel Perchloride of mercury.
Cook mecury 1 sr., green vitriol 1 sr. and Sanidhava (sea salt) 1 sr. There become Rasakarpura (Calomel) by this process.
(43x) Close tin sr. and bhilāmā (marking nut = Semecarpus anacardium) sr. into the horn of a buffalo, put it (the thing) into fire of 2 baskets of dry wild cowdung cakes. Om - 4 kinds. Make 1 rotalo (bread) of soft leaf of sāga (Indian teak tree), make two breads of Bassia latifolia (Mahudā). Thus make 3 pieces bread in all. Next bring pure zinc and make bread by melting and purifying it. Next bring an earthen bowl, put the bread of Bassia Latifolia into it, put the bread of leaf of Indian teak tree over it. Next put the leaf of zinc over it, next put bread of Bassia latifolia over it. Next close the mouth of the earthen bowl and put a layer of cloth and clay over it, give it fire of dry wild cowdung (pieces), burn the clay on the fire. Fire is to be given for 8 praharas; put gold 12 into it, give it the second Pața (roasting); it becomes gold ?
(44) Give 7, pațas (roastings) of lemon to mercury 1 Sr. and 1/3 sr. of sal-ammoniac, j sr. of sulphur and realgar ța 9 and get them dried up. Fill them into a casket (or bottle), give it fire. Cinnabar is produced. It is of 4 paktis (pakas).
(À5) Make Kajjali (black sulphide) of mercury or aethop's mineral of mercury tā. 5 by rubbing them with the juice of sonchus aruenois (sahadevi) and rub them in the juice of Vitisakraunte gyularis (Codhāra hādasakalı), put the whole thing into a crucible and seal it up. Give it fire in a Vāluk, āyantra for 5 praharas-dipagni, madhurāgni, kālāgni, and hathāgni-thus for 5 praharas 1. Prāne Khao hasā. 1. -
1. Not explainable without commentary.
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