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2. The process of making Pegāmi Navasara
Rub all these-mercury Pai. 1, centipeda orbicularis pai 1 by drenching the whoe thing in the lemon (juice) and (putting) sulphur demaḍı (pai 1) bhar. and borax pai 1 bhar into them. Next rub them all in the juice of corallocarpus epigaeus (Nathi), close the whole thing in a sampuța (lid) and give it fire for 1 prahara. Put a pill of sal-ammoniac pai 10 into an earthen vessel, put lid (on tin) over it. Put a pot of siddhi (Sisa) over it by filling it up., make a hole at the bottom of the pot. First go on giving a litte rasa (juice or fluid) like tuya (drops); next slowy make thick stream for 3 days; water is sucked. Both make noise and continue to make noise, then it is accomplished. Its test; that which becomes red sucks the water of tin. That is to be known as Pegami Navasara. First give dipagni (light of lamp), next increase and increase it.1
Take sal-ammoniac. tā 10, and powder of Nṛtubali2; (double) (of the former) ta. 20, put (give) sal-ammoniac under and over the latter. Give seven putas to the whole thing in a kabacıyantra, go on putting double powder in every puta.
As a result there becomes paṁcarang (five-coloured) pure Pegami Navasara.
Pure sal-ammoniac comes from the ship. Put that Kabaciyantra into that earthen bowl. Cover (it) under and over with double powder, put a lid (Saravalu) over it upside down. Pat a layer of cloth and clay over it, fill sand over it, give it fire under it for 1 prahara. and give it 7 putas.3
Some chemical Processes in combination with sal-ammoniac: grind these things-Sal-ammoniac pai 5, Kalami cuno (a kind of lime) pai. 5, and Samudraphena. Vahnijara (dried up i. e. womb of aquatic Agmnakra a kind of sea product.) Use in the jarana of murcury pai. 5. Put them into a big pot (carudo)- under and over, cover it up and seal it up. Put seven layers of cloth and clay over it dry it up and give it fire into a bhati of a furnace. Next put sal-ammoniac into a pan of Kantiloha and make it wet with water, put it there where is air, at night it gets melted and become (rasa), Put it on the furnace in the morning, give it fire with the wood of Cottontill, the liquid gets dried up. Put it again in the air, again give it fire. It in the juice remains and doingthus it is produced,*
1. SRSS., Ch. II-21.
2. Not' idenlified.
3. SRSS., Ch. 12.3.
4. SRSS., Ch. 12.4.
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