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(25) Give 3 puțas of Datura to mineral calamine ța. 4, 3 putas of Kāmoti (a kind of plant), 3 puțas of Achyranthus aspera (aghāļa) and, 3 puțas of turmeric (halud) to it. Make a copper leaf tā 4, grind (pound) the medicine in the oil of Anacardium lā. 4 and smear the leaf in a closed crucible for 6 ghadis (6x24 = 144 minutes) by melting it. There becomes
gold.
(26) Put sulphur into a ripe Bel (Aegle marmelos) and place it into an earthen vessel; close it up and put it into a dust heap for a month. Take it out and mix 1 rati of the essence with 1 tola of silver. There becomes fåint (light)-coloured gold; it should be dipped into the water
at or a kind of plant). There takes place an increase of its carat.
(27) Mix tin with sulphur. Silver.
(28) Rub sulphur sr. and honey į sr., then rub mercury # sr. in the juice of ocimum sanctum; combine both of them and fill them into a bottle and put three layers of cloth and clay 'over it. Dig a pit with a depth upto the waist and fill it up with horse dung, and keep that bottle into it for 6 months. (There becomes) oil, it is to be given (smeared) to silver. Gold ?
(29) Rub ţa 5 of each of Achyranthus aspera, (aghāda), wedelia calendulacea (bhāngaro), black datura (kalo dharta), halulau (Myrobalans ?), Dhaholii and mercury to. 3, mercury is fixed.
(30) Cook cinnabar to. 1, in the clarified butter to. 21, curd to. 21, honey to. 21, and sulphur to. 21, thus cook it in 84 tolas of these things true. Silver (becomes) gold.
leaf of Hastikand (Colceasia
(30x) Cook mercury in the juice of Indica ?), it gets fixed.
(31) Take a cup of copper of tā. 1, make rububing (carii)2 of mercury tā. 10, fill the cup with the juice of cymnema sylvestre, give it fire of 5 praharas. Next the cup breaks up; tin or lead gets dried up.
(32) Fill sulphur into a bulb of onion and cook it by giving it fire for 2 praharas; sulphur gets fixed. 1. Not identified. 2. Not clear, it may be rubbling.
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