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Some other Chemical process.
· Put sal-ammoniac pai 1 and mercury. pai into an agiu of the inside of brinjal for 4 days and give it fire for 4 -praharas. Again crush them and put then into it and give fire to it for 4 praharas.
Somala
Rub Malla (Somala =oxide of arsenic) 1 sr. in the juice of five limbs. of (Mustard tree of Scripture=Salvadora persica ?) viz, fruit flower, leaf, bark and root. Put it into a bowl made of glass (Kācadı give it fire in a Damaruyantra for 4 praharas. Thus give it 40 putas of khicadi, (hotchpotch ?). If the bowl breaks make a new one. On doing thus, the whole thing settles down like Silver at the bottom. Mix } rati of the essence.?
It kills mecury, liquefies iron and it is a stomachic and an absorbent of the spleen and aids digestion after much eating. Cullikālavana is useful in the jāraņa (killing) of mercury and in the melting of metals.3
Somal of is used in many chemical processes according the Indian alchemical works. It is of three kinds, viz. (1) yellow like turmeric (2) bright and hard like ivory and white and bright like conchshell. If it is to be purified take one big karelā (Momordica charanlia) and take out, the pulpa (gudā) of (from) the inside of it and put the small pieces of oxided arsenic inside it. Then cook it into a Dolāyantra for 1 prahara. Its essence become white bright like the colour of gold or Kesara (Mesua forrea). If it is blown by putting it into a Tiryakyantra, mercury is obtained from it, which can be collected (Combined) in Jalāśaya (Water).
Among the three kinds of Somala yellow Somala is the best: 5
1. SRSS., Ch. 5. 43 2. SRSS., Ch. 12.5. 3. RS., 3.1 29 vide findu Chemistry P. 176 4. Gauripāşaņakah pīto vikațo hatacūrņkaḥ śphaçikābhasca saṁkhābho
haridrābhastrayaḥ smộta // Pūrvah pūrvo guņaiḥ śreşthaḥ Kāravalliphale ksipet / Svedayed-damdikāmadhủye, śuddho bhavati mūsakah // Talavad grāhayetsattavam Suddham śubhram prayojayet/Rasabamdha
karaḥ snigdho doşaghno Rasaviryakịt // Rs. 3/130–133. vaigbhat, 5. Ibid.
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