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(20) Rub mercury to. 1 in the juice of uttarayana (Daemia extensa ?) to. 1, for 7 days. Rub it in the juice of Celastrus paniculatā (Malakāmgni) to. 7 and in the juice of black datura to. 7 for 7 days, every day to. 1. Next put a cup of long gourd under a sarāva (lid); give pieces of Datura over it, close the sarāva, give it fire for 4 praharas. If red colour is generated, it (mercury) dies.
(21) Rub all these-mercury pai. 1, Centipeda orbicularis pai. 1 by drenching (dipping) it (or them) in the lemon (juice), and (putting) sulphur damại (pai) bhār and borax pai bhār into them. Next rub them all in the
ice of colallocarpus epigaeus (Nahı), close the whole thing in a samputa lid) and give it fire for 1 prahara. Put a pill of sal-ammoniac pai. 10 into an earthen vessel, put tin or lid over it, put a pot of siddhi (leads ?) over it by filling it up; make a hole at the bottom of the (under) the pot. First go on giving a little rasa (juice) like ţūyā (drops), next slowly make thick stream upto 3 days, water is sucked. Both make noise and continue to make noise, then it is accomplished. Its test-that which becomes red sucks the water of tin, that is to be known as-pegāmi Navasāra. First give dipāgni (light of lamp), next increase and increase (it.)
(22) Combine sulphur, ( sr. and green vitriol ța. 10; give their essence 108 puțas of Aloe vera on fire, next mix 1 tola of copper and 1 rati of the essence. Gold ?
(23) Reduce mercury to. 1 to paste in Kerarasa (juice of capparis decidua Edgew) and Aconite Ferox, put it into lemon (juice), (next) put it into ash; give it fire for 4 ghatikās (4x24 = 96 minutes). It becomes silver, true. 3.
(24) Grind suiphur tā. 3, orpiment tā. 3, cinnabar tā. 3, vermillion tā. 3, mercury tā. 3, golden pyrite tā 6, Dāļimarasa (essence of pomėgranate = punica granatum) țā. 1, zinc tā. 3, borax tā. 3. and glass ta. 9; spead out glass powder under and put the powder of medicine over, put the leaf of zinc over it. Again put medicine, again cover it with glass (powder ?), cover it up with seal. Give it fire for li praharas. There becomes gold
.. (24x) Cook Rala (resin) and borax in the juice of lemon for 2 praharas. Put the essence into copper, cook rāla alone and give it water, it becomes gold.
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