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the bottom of the bowl. Later on dig a pit measuring 14 yards deép; dig a small pit into it, do as such that a lota (a small pot) of copper or a pan is fitted there. And put a cup of copper into that, put the earthen bowl over it. Close the joint of the bowl and the cup. Next again olose the middle part of the bowl with clay up to the mouth of the bowl. Put (give) 7 layers of cloth and clay over it from the mouth to the middle portion of the vessel. Next give it fire of goat's dung for 12 praharas. Mercury comes out. Fill up water below (under) into the cup & under into the copper vsssel. Mercury will come out into it. True.
(23) Quench (mix) the juice of black ocimum grantissimum (Babarı) into the juice of Aristolochia indica (Isvarligi), it will be like a small piece of bread. Next put sambharluņa (Salt of Sambar) 1 șr. into an earthen pot, make it like a plain platfrom (cotaro), put cāndaki (bread like thing) over it. Put it on the furnace, give sufficient juice to it up to 6 praharas. Again burn it over and give it the juice of lemon for 6 praħaras, give it caya (drops), thus do it 4 times. That is, give it fire for 24 praharas.
The powder will be as such that it will fill the tip of two fingers, that is, it is accomplished. Mix the essence Vala-14 into 1 tola of copper. Gold?
(24) Put somalakhāra (oxide of arsenic) 1 tola into these three kinds of juice-the juice of prickly pear = Slipper Thorn ( = Nagaphaņı)-1 sr. the juice of bitter Lagenaria vulgaris (kadui Tumbi) 1 sr. and the juice of Red lotus (Kalhara) 1 sr. into an earthen bowl and cook it in a Dolikayantra. Đo as such that Somala remains 3 fingers high from the juice.
Make dipagni under it (Dolikāyantra). Take out the essence and make a hole into an Amorphophallus companutatus. Put it (somala etc.) into it and close it (Kanda). Smear it with paddy (husk) and cowdung, put (give) a layer of cloth and clay over it (Kanda), give it gajapuțāgni for 4 praharás. Tin sucks (dries up) the water.
(25) Grind mercury to. 1, sulphur to. 1, orpiment to. 1, golden pyrite to. 1 and zinc ļ sr. and make two cups (of zinc), Make smearing on them, next make a smearing on the sampuța- (lid) - inside and outside by grinding the salt, put a cover of cloth and clay over it. Next fill sand into one and put salt over it, put the cup over that, fill the pit with goat's dung, teave the cup over the bowl, fill goat's dung over it and give it fire for 3 days. Mix 1' māsā of essence into I tola of copper, gold ?
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