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119 (37) Rub wet mica to. 12, and mercury to. 12 together. Rub sweetless honey (molo madh) and borax in clarified butter. Put the whole thing in a vajramūsā and close it and put it into an earthen jar, give it bhathāgni for 2 praharas. Next worship it by taking out. it Pill becomes Viryathambhi (i. e. it makes semen fixed).
(38) Dry up water in tin. Next put it into 1 maund of milk-it comes out (vomits). Its name is Samtaguţikā.
(39) Rub mercury tā. 12 and leaf of silver tā. 12 with lemon for 2 days. Next put the whole thing into a cocoanut: Close its mouth, give (put) 3 layers of cloth and clay over it. Fill an earthen jar with sand, put the cocoanut into that, close the mouth of the jar. Dig a pit measuring 2 cubits, give it fire by putting goat's dung-4 maunds, į under, i over it in between the jar for 10 and 12 days. Next take it out. There becomes goțaka. If it drinks (assimilates) milk, it is successful (accomplished), if it does not drink, it is trivedhi (piercing threefold). Mix 1 tola of copper and 1 rati of the essence. By drinking milk lead becomes gold.
(40) Rub mercury to. 1 in the juice of Datura for 2 days. Next combine together Samkhiu somala (a kind of oxide of arsenic) to 2, with them and rub it in honey. Next put the whole thing into a small copper box of 4 + 1/8 sis. and close it by putting the thing into it. By digging a pit of yard, put 3 layers of cloth and clay over it. Give it fire of dry wild cowdung cakes. Take white thing which comes up, mix 1 māsā of that essence into 1 tola of copper.
If sveta (silver) does not come up there is ash (ghagarai) lying under; take that. White mercury lying at the bottom of the box becomes all-piercing, melt it, that melted water is the essence. (Dip) brass into oil 7 times, then cast 4 māsās of silver into half of the essence. Pumāvacanāni (words of Pumā).
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