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Aloe Vera, put over it a layer of wax and cloth and make puțapāka of it in a Bhabhar Yantra. On gobalaine (stirring), there becomes goțaka (ball), rub it into the fruit of Ubhi-rigani (Solanum indicum) and give a little fire to it, till the juice gets dried up. Thus Puța. (8 ?) 108..
Take rasa (mercury fluid ?) by making it wet with the lemon with two rasas of Nagachikāni (Centipeda orbicularis), grind it into it and give it fire little, by little; gotika (pills) gets bound (fixed). By taking out the juice of Centipeda orbicularis, rub mercury, alum, malla (Somala) = oxide of arsenic and cinnabar in equal quantity and cast the whole thing into a crucible.
Put first mercury, next leaf, next cinnabar, next alum, next put the juice of centipeda orbucularis. At first black smoke will come out. Next at the second time when rasa (mercury) is mixed up, then blue smoke comes out. At the third time when in mixing rasa (mercury), white smoke comes out. Next take out the whole thing, pill (ball) is produced. Next melt it by making tin (trapu), next, if it is (becomes) very hard, give borax into it for the second time and melt it, ball sucks water on turning. Having 'put charcoal by the side of crucible make phūk Vuja, grind the essence, mix it up, there becomes (gold ?). No doubt here.
(11x) Take mercury to. 1, clove to. 4, Chaleta to. 4, lakadi 4, (Rheum emodi), centipeda orbicularis, euphorbia niviia and betal leaf, and combine and heat them for 4 praharas.
(12) The process of making Mudrā
Drench fenu greek (Trigonella foenum graccium) (Methi) into water and drench (make wet) Multānı māți (Multanı soil) into the water of Methi, Make mudrā of it first. Next dry it up on the burnnig charcoal; grind first the drenched Methi and the powder of adad (phaseolus radialus). in equal portion. Next make a seal. On the seal made first, spread out the powder of stone over it. Next dry it up. .
(13) Grind sulphnr tā. 5 sal-ammoniac. tā. 5, and honey tā. 10 with the urine of a child for seven day in an earthen pot with the butt (piston) of wood of Sahatut (a kind vanaspati). 1 Next put silver into the essence by melting it; gold.
(14) Rub tin 1, mercury 1, Kāyam Navasāra (sal-ammoniac) 1, and carbonate of potash = potassium carbónus (Javakhāra) in the juice of the leaf of Aloe Vera. Close the mixture up (put) into a crucible of the shape
1, not yet identifeid.
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