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. (20) (Take) a thick piece of cloth measuring the length of 1 cubit square, give it 6 saturations with the milk of calotropis gigantea. Apply sr. of it (to it). Thus on the seventh day there becomes wet cloth (nilāja vastra). Take sr. of sulphur and these five seeds :- pai 1 bhār of seeds, mustard seed, pai. 1 bhār of linseed, pai. 1 bhār of mesua ferrea (Nāgakeśar), pai. 1 bhār of Momordica Dioica (Kaņțāli bija) and pai. 1 bhār. of Calotropis gigantea (arkabija).
spread them out over the cloth and pour Kathoni (not identifeid). Make it (cloth) wet with the mustard oil, Khoine Trākalo 1 (not identifeid), keep the piece in one place, it gets melted by the contact of fire. Next melt silver to. Į, and copper to. 1, one drop (of essence) is to be cast into that. When all copper gets decayed (assimilated), then silver becomes
gold.
(21) Put molasses 2 (parts), sulphur 2, lime 4, gorocanā (a scented thing) 2 & a leaf of zinc into an open crucible Next give (put) that zinc into copper. Gold.
(22) Put Dathiu sulphur tā. 3 into a small copper-box by grinding it, mix rice like pieces of zinc tā. 3 into it, spread out Sambhara salt-3 ratis over it by pounding it, give (put) a cover (lid) over the small box and a layer of clay and (cloth). After drynig up the two, give, it heat into the fire of dry wild cow-dung cakes-7 srs. On its getting cold, take it out. The grains of zinc like pearls become gold, take it.
(23) Take mercury tola 34, zinc tā. 4, āmalasāra sulphur tā. 44, Teliu borax tā. 41, the juice of Aloe vera $ (tā) and the juice of black cirupoti (1 ta). Purify mercury in Jhikā (not identified) in the juice of lemon for 3 days, next melt lead and zinc together, next make lump with mercury. Purify amalasāra sulphur in mustard oil and quench it into it). Closing all things into a copper sampuța, fill the juice of cirapoți and the juice of Aloe vera into a copper-box and close it. Wrap it up with iron wire; make a smearing over it by combining brick, sweet flag root, old boha 2 and molasses and crushing them; give (put) 3 layers of cloth and clay over it. Dry it up for 3 days, give it gajapuțāgni for 4 praharas. On its getting cold, take it out. (There becomes) gold.
(24) Rub the king of Sulphur (or sulphur and mercury) in the juice of variegated coloured Kākarudā (not identified 3), put zinc mixed with sambhara salt into a small copper box and wrap it up with iron wire and close it up, give it fire for four praharas. It is said by Mahādeva Majyo.
1. Not clear. . 2. Not identified.
3. It may be a kind of vanaspati,
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