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over-it, (give it) fire (i.e. burn it) for 3 days; go on taking out ashes and go on putting goat's dung. On its getting cooled down, take out the medicine from the bottle; again like that rub the medicine in the juice of 'ocimum sanctum up to 3 days, again put camphor ţā. 5 and combine toge
ther all by grinding, again fill up the bottle (Kūpi = casket), as previously done; pour the thing into the juice of ocimum sanctum 1 sr. and close the mouth of the bottle (kūpi), and put 7 layers of cloth and clay over it. As before instructed), close its mouth and get it dried up, next give it fire of goat's dung up to (for) 108 praharas by litting fire. Next on its getting cooled down, that essence is produced. Take it out from the kūpi (casket), put it into a bottle, give rice (cokhā) į or 1 bhār of cokhā (rice) into the leaf, it will destroy all diseases.
(20) Grind together tin (Kalahi) 1 sr., 14 rati of patri,' pure orpiment tā. 3, Euphorbia pilulifera tā. 3, and green leaf of lawsonia alb. :(Mahedi), and make pill. Next wrap up the pill with thread, then make a hole into a big ripe brinjal, put the pill into it and close the hole by giving (putting) a piece of it into its mouth), put (give) 7 layers of cloth and clay over it; get it dried up in the shade, next cook it in the fire of 5 and 7 dry cowdung cakes. Thus give 108 patas, (roastings) to it. This is the essence. Mix 1 rali of the essence into 1 ga(diyāna) of copper. Gold. . (21) Purify copper sr., next grind all these-Samkhio somala (a kind of oxide of arsenic) to. 1, Aconitum borax (Vachanaga) to. 1, borax to. 1 and sal-ammoniac to. 1. in the juice of Achyranthus aspera for 4 days, apply 3 srs. of the juice of Achyranthus aspera. Next make thick tablets. Dry them up in the shade. Next make two earthen crucibles and an earthen bowl, put them into it, give (put) 4 layers of cloth and clay over it by closing it. Get it dried up, next dig 2 pits side by side into the earth, fill them with dry cowdung" cakes and lit (make) fire. Next, when fire becomes smokeless, then put the balls (golās) into it (one), cover the fire, next make the fire of the second pit ready, before the first on get cooled down. Make it smokeless. Next by taking out the golās (balls or pills) from the first pit, put the same into the second. In this way make fire for 14 praharas. On its getting cooled down, take out the golās, the medicine becomes white, it is accomplished, give a dose, measuring a grain of rice into a leaf. It is efficacious, it is generator of appetite and strength.
(22) Burn big oyster shell of peral = 1 sr. and grind it, pound it by rubbing. Next get it drenched (wet) into the milk of Euphorbia antiquorun and make tablets of it, put them into an earthen bowl. Make 5 holes at 1, Some metal leaf.
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