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and give (put) a layer of clay over the bottle and get it dried up, in the shade; again smear it, dig a little deep pit, put half goat's dung under (it) and half over it, place a cover over it, Burn it with fire for 3 days. When it becomes red, take out the essence. Next melt copper tā. 3, put the essence vāla 2 into it. There becomes silver. Melt that which is not produced in an open crucible. It becomes of 12 carats. True.
(29) Make a cup of silver, put mercury ga. 1 into it, bring the milk of Euphorbia Nerifolia sr., sprinkle it on mercury by drops; (next) give it fire in an earthen bowl for 28 praharas, give it bhațāgni. Make fire (i. e. give it fire) upto that time (till) it becomes soft; when pressed by nails it gets powdered, put the cup into the earthen bowl. Mix sand with the grind of old fine grain of rice, put that sand into the bowl, put the cup on that sand. Put the essence vāla 2 into 9 tolas of tin. There becomes good silver.
(30) Take mineral calamine tā 9 and the juice of leaves of good zizyphus saliva (achanabori), grind the mineral calamine with that and make together a lump. Next put the hair of a man into the lid (Saravalā), put the lump of medicine into it and close the lid, give it fire for three days by placing bhāri (bundle of fire-stick) into dry wild cowdung cakes. That is, the essence is produced. Mix vāla 2 of the essence into copper gadīyāņā 1. There becomes silver of 14 carats. Thi s page
(31) If cinnabar į tā. is taken with water of sour curd at day time; poison comes out from the belly-(stomach).
(32) Make collyrium rubbing the root of Istar., the root of Herpestes monniera (Brāhmi) and the root of Corallocarpus epigaeus) (Nāhi) upto 34 ghaạis (34 x 24 minutes = 84 minutes). This is the process of making invisible, if (it is applied.).
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