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- (vii) Take out the essence of mica by blowing out dirt on the day of Mūlanaksatra... These are the seven processes of taking out the essence
(7) Mix these three-kāginda 1 sr. (panicum milia ceum ?), mercury 1 sr. and sulphur 15 srs. and put them into a Chinese cup. Cook them into an earthen vessel for cooking rice. Mercury becomes ash (i.e. killed).
(8) Rub mercury ss. in the juice of bitter long gourd 1 sr., the juice of the leaf of calotropis gigantea 1 sr, and the juice of the leaf of euphorbia nivuiia 1 sr. for 5 praharas. Next give it fire for 15 praharas. (If taken), one's appetite becomes double.
(9) Put mercury # sr. into lead-sampuța (lid) of 1 sr., place the sampuța into an earthen pot (or bowl). Next pour horse's' urine 5 srs. into it by mixing with samcalaluņa (kind of salt) I sș; give (put) seven layers of cloth and clay over it and give it fire for 16 praharas. Mix 1 rāti of the essence into 1 sr. of tin. Silver is produced.
Action of Cup
(10) Keep orpiment 8 srs. and red Abrus precatorious į sr. dipped in the milk of she-goat and take out oil in Pātālayantra. Next put mercury 1 sr. into a zinc cup of 2 srs; make that cup drink (i.e. dip) into the juice of Lamprachoenium microcephalum (Brahmadandi)-2 srs. Fill oil into it, put lead (Nāda ga ?) in between sambhara lupa 3 srs. (Sambhara salt) by crushing it. Put the cup over it, fill the cup with that oil, place the earthen bowl over that cup. Fill 15 srs. of sambharaluna over that, give fire under it for 12 praharas, give (mix) 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tolā of cooper.
(11) Put the juice of Bugo (a kind of plant) 1 sr. and mercury 1 sr. into an iron pot, give it fire for 5 praharas, give cüyā (drops) to the whole thing. Stir up the whole thing with the root of Buge. If 114 to(la) of tin are mixed (given) into lead, there becomes gold.
(12) Rub mercury in the juice of Ipomaea reniformis and the juice of Aloe vera and quench it into kākası (sisymbrium irio), There becomes silver.
(13) Rub mercury in the juice of Ipomaea, Close it into a copper sampuța (lid), and fill rasa (juice of mercury) in, it and close it firmly. The essence makes (creaties) sexual appette.
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