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(33) Burn the bone of the neck of a camel and mix its ash, 1 masa into copper 1 sr.; it melts quickly; true.
(34) Put the bone.of Kola (boar) (into copper), it melts quickly, put the tail of a rat (into copper), it melts quickly. With (in the case of) Naka chikanı (Centipeda orbicularis) it is just like that, with Kamța 1-selii (it is). like that, it (copper) melts.
(35) Quench the leaf of iron into the juice of the root of Lohukhandı = (Ixora parviflora = Samadera) 107 times, it gets reduced to ashes and quench it in the juice of raw, Riber ebony (Dispyros peregrina) (Timbara) like that.
(36) Put leaf of iron into pueraria tuberosa (Bhuikohalu) by splitting it up; close it up and put 3 three layers of cloth and clay (over 'it), give it gajapuțāgni for 4 praharas.
(37) Put Casaviştā (stool or excretá of cāsa) = (a kind of bird). to. 3 and mercury to. 1, into an earthen pot and close it up. Next put mercury into the earthen pot, spit on it (mercury) by chewing betel leaf (piper beetle); go on putting the excreta of cāsa little by little, mercury is fixed. Next apply (smear) white ash (of mercury) on the veins of piper betel; it becomes red. This is the test.
(38) Put the leaf of iron into the juice of Pomegranate (Dādama), having white flower, for a day; it gets reduced to ashes, it becomes white. If 1 rati of it is mixed into copper and Kathir (one kind of tin), there becomes silver.
(39) Take milk of swine (she-pig) pai. 8; grind sal-ammoniac pai. 1, and red alum pai. Ź. Put milk into a copper pot and cook them, they become powder. Rub 1 māsā of it; mercury to. 1, sulphur to. 1, orpiment to. 1 (godanti), hamsapāk cinnabar to. 1, realgar to. 1, water (or Khāra) of gram to. 4 into the juice of 100 lemons (Kāgadi); heat the leaf of zinc pai. 4 bhār and quench it into the essence of these things. Thus do it 21 times. Next crush Hira duşana (Calamus draco) pai. 2 into the urine of cow. Next by heating and heating the leaf of copper, quench it into the thick liquid (essence) of these things, thus 21 times. Next melt i tola of copper, put 1 tola of zinc into it. Ba. ma. 2 Next give tips of gum of gadhia palāsa (Butea frondasa); gold will be of yellow colour.
1. not yet identified. 2, not yet identified
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