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20, pra du. Nāla1 28, Khutu2 as aforesaid & alpa Nala 8. Khā (sā) sine3 pakh bha (vati ?) It is advised by Bakara Khan.
(8) Rub padamokhetha sr. and Patri tala sr. in horse-urine for a day. Next put 5, srs. of surokhara (Nitrate of salf peter) into an earthen vessel; give (put) copper and orpiment under and over. Close the mouth of the earthen vessel by giving a good seal to it. Then give it fire for 3 days, there becomes gold.
(9) Lit fire of dry wild cowdung cakes. (Take) sal-ammoniac ta 10, and lime (Kalicuno) ta 50, make lime finely powdered and put half of it under, and half of it over in the vessel, put sal-ammoniac in between them. Close it and give it fire of dry wild cowdung cakes of 1 basket. There becomes jotaka combination (pill.)
(10) Take po, nalo5 1. It is white like harakoi, docae7 and chalk. Smear sal-ammoniac and mercury on the leaf (of brass) and dry it up in fire. Thus do it seven times. The process removes the blackness of brass. (11) Grind Somala (oxide of arsenic) sr. with cow's milk 1 sr. Mix it by drops and bind it. Next grind it (Somala) in sr. of milk and remove its dirt. Take it out by washing. There remains the butter of salammoniac at the botton (under) like silver; grind it with Aloe vera and cook it in a Veluyantra by putting it into a bottle on fire for 12 praharas.
(12) Rub mercury in thorny (kāṭāli) standing Tribulus Ter of Kālāphul (Evolvulus alsiniodes); it becomes butter-like in 3 days. Next make a crucible of Lippia nodiflora (jalapipar), give alum under and over and close its mouth. Su, give it fire of 1 prahara. Thus grind mercury in Tribulus and make crucible of standing Jalası, give alum Po. 1 and Pa. kha 1 under and over. Having ground it in this way, make a crucible of Hasti paga; give Samcora loņa (sodiai chloradum) under and give it gajaputāgni for 4 praharas. Put po. Kh8. 1 into a red earthen vessel, next mercury to 1, go on putting powder (dust) of Challeta (not identifiid) upl prahara; go on stirring it up with the root of green Naga (mesua ferrea ?). Under it burn the woods of Acacia Catechu (Khadira) and Mimusops hexandra (Rayan) (rayana). There will be an appetite of 8 Srs, it is sex-exciting.
1. Not yet idientifled.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Not deciphered.
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