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After taking water of lime 3, place two earthen bowls on the oven (furnace), go on putting that water (of lime) little by little. Make (lit) fire under the earthen bowl. After heating of the whole water, rasa (juice or mineral) bubbles inside, take it out. That sal-ammoniac is fixed, it becomes liquid on fire.1
The process of Sphatika (ivory) is like that.
The process of fixation of Sal-ammoniac and making its essence Sal-ammoniac is fixed in the juice of Umbara (fig tree). Crush Morthuthu (a kind of poison) in the juice of croton tiglion (Danti) and give it 7 patas (roastings.) The essence is produced.2
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The process of making water of sal-ammoniac.
Bring Sal-ammoniac, make a hole into a brinjal by cutting its stalk (bita), take out the kernal (garbha) of the brinjal and fill sal-ammoniac into it; givé a piece of stalk into the hole, put it into paddy of 1 prastha and boil it there. Sal-ammoniac becomes water. Close corton tig, cassia angustifolia and Dolichos biflorus in water in a Dolikäyantra for 1 prahara. Next take the whole thing out. Rub them (Cassia and cinnabar) in the juice of Aloe vera by combining together 1 tola of cassia and 1 tola of Hamsapaka Hingula (cinnabar), besmear thorń piercing. Copper leaf, with that paste put it into a fresh lid (Sarav) and give it gajaputagni by putting a layer of cloth and clay, give a puta to it, (roasting) till copper gets killed. Next mix the dust of copper equal to the quantity of silver and melt them. There becomes 10 carat gold.3
1. The process of making pegami Navasara.
Make a leaf of zinc
sr., rub sulphur in mustard oil and smear it on the leaf of zinc, give it putas (roastings) six times. Thus, give it 108 such putas as the leaf does not get melted.
Melt zinc and mix mercury with it as measuring equal to of it and make tablets.
Put lime 2 srs. under and over it and blow it with water; such 108 putas (are to) be given.
Mix silver tola 1 andrati of the essence. Drench sal-ammoniac into the juice of Siddhi (Rasna) (Vegetable Rennet), if it is blown up, it becomes fixed. If again, it is drenched and blown up, it does not fly (blow up). If this process (is) done 7 times, it become Pegami Navasar (Sal-ammoniac)*
1. SRSS., X. 45.
2. Ibid., V. 2.
3. SRSS., Ch. VII. 28.
4. SRSS., Ch. X. 58,
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