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(14) Put mercury pai. 1 and zinc pai. into a copper-Samputa and fill it up with the juice of Ipomaea reniformis and close the Sampuța and give it fire. (Gold ?)
(15) Rub orpiment pai į, mercury pai į and cinnabar (Samgharaph) pai. 1 in the juice of Centipeda orbicularis and juice of lemon. Make a hole into a brick and cook them into it. Give cayā (drops) of lemon juice to the whole thing. Mix 1 rati of the essence with 1 tola (of copper). There becomes gold.
(16) Put mercury pai. 24 into a zinc cup of pai 1. Next fill sambharaluña (Sambhar salt) 3 srs. into an earthen bowl. Put the cup over that (it), fill it up with the juice of lemon, make (lit) hathāgni under it. Give juice till mercury gets reduced to ash, (put), (the essence) into 1 tola (of copper ?), (gold ?),
(17) Put mercury pai. 24 into a zinc cup of pai 5 bhār. Fill salt into an earthen bowl, next mix cinnabar 1, realgar 1, orpiment 1 & somala (oxide of arsenic) 1 under and give the cup over, (from above). Give cāyā of lemon, black Aloe vera and urine of ass till the whole thing becomes lime-like.Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. Particularly give it cūyā of lemon and Aloe vera. gold ? .
(18) Put orpiment pai. 6 into glass cup, next fill up a big pan with the juice of Kasudi (Round podea cassia = cassia Sophero or Cassia occidentalis), keep it for 3 days and dry it up. Do thus 3 times. Next put the juice of Kolikandā (Indian Squvill). It gets dried up in one day. Do it thus for 3 days.
Next filter Bassia Latifolia (Talio moharo) paisa 4 bhār with a piece of cloth, put it into orpiment and rub it with the juice of Cassia accidentalis and fill it into a bottle. Put hair into the mouth of the bottle. Next place (hold) the glass pot (cup) under that tube. Next give it fire of pieces of goat's dung 7 srs. in an earthen bowl.
Take the essence which comes out from that (bottle). The essence which remains intoit, becomes white. Break the bottle and take out the essence. That essence makes copper white. Oil comes out. That makes silver bright.
(19) Hold Indian Squvill (Kolikanda) on fire, when it becomes slightly warm, then take out its juice by pressing it with hand, put it (juice) into orpiment' and grind it (orpiment). Thus is the process of orpiment.
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