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put 7 layers of cloth and clay (over it); mix the goat-dung and cow-dung and give it gajapuțāgni with their mixture, for 4 praharas. Mix 1 rati of the essence with pure copper tola 1, combine bija mā(sā) 3, Sri, (wealth) (will come).
(30) Rub samkhiu somala (oxide of arsenic) to 1 and mercury ta 1 in (the juice of) lemon for 3 days; put borax māsā 1 into them, make a ball (pill) of them, make a hole into a brinjal, put the whole thing into it and close it and do it 3 times. Mix 1 māsā of the essence with 1 tola of copper, combine bija māsā 3. Jotakam of (gold ?)
(31) Make a hole into a gourd, rub somala (oxide of arsenic) tola 3, put it into that grourd and give a cover (into the hole), put 7 layers of cloth and clay over it. Give it gajapuțāgni (fire) of 5 maunds of dry wild cowdung cakes. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. Clear silver comes out. Its name is Santaguţikā.
(32) Rub mercury to. 1 in the juice of Tāļi Dudheli (euphorbia pilulifera) for 1 day, rub orpiment in the juice (Tiąuri)' for 1 day, make pills of them and put them into the water of lime and cook them in Dolikāyantra for 3 praharas. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper, combine 3 māsās of bija, (essence ?), keep 5 (it) inside the house for 1 month.
There become pure silver.
(33) Make a hole into a Kșirakanda = Bhūmikusmāņda (pueraria. tuberosa) and put mercury tā. 2 into it, close the hole, keep it in cold water for 21 days. By taking it out, make worship. Keep that gutikā into the mouth. If you think of the desire born in your mind to go to some place, you will go there.
(34) Rub mercury into a cocoanut for 1 day and give it sunshine for 3 days. Next rub it in the juice of Bavi (a kind of Vanaspati). Make pill, keep it into the mouth; semen is fixed (i. e. penis gets erected.)
(35) Make a crucible out of ash of mukhavastra (mouth cover) 1, ujalı māti (bright soil) 1, and glass 1 in the milk of Nivadāga (a kind of Vanaspati). Take gāra (clay and cow=dung) 1, lime 1, carbon of cloth (vastra-masi) 1, varulamāți 1 and make a crucible in milk.
(36) Take svetamāți (white soil) bhā. 1, lime bhā. 1, flux bhā 1, make vajramuşā (hard or strong crucible). Take lime 1, clay 1, black kātho 1, ash of rice (Vrahiraksa) 1, rust of iron (lohakata) 1 & haritaki 1 and make a vajramūsā (strong crucible). 1. A kind of vanaspati. 1. Not identified.
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