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and place it into a Sarāvasampuța and give it roasting in gajapuțāgni three times. Copper will get incinerate by this process.?
(2) Cook the thin copper-leaf in the cow's urine for praharas. Next rub
(grind) double quality of sulphur in the juice of Amlaparņi and make pills of it. Then put the copper and make pills of it, Then put copperleaf into those pills in an earthen pot and close its mouth with a lid. Put a covering of cloth and clay over it and place it on the furnace. Heat it in fire for 1 prahara. By this process copper gets incinerated.”
Somanāthi tāmrabhasma (3) It is prepared with mercury, sulphur, orpiment, realagar and copper
leaf. Make collyrium by crushing mercury sulphur, orpiment and realagar and put the copper leaf into this collyrium, heat it in a garbhayantra for one prahara, it will get incinerated. 3
The proeess of melting Copper. Burn the bone of the neck of a camel and mix its ash 1 masa into copper 1 sr., it melts quickly.
Put the bone of kola (boar) (into copper), it melts quickly. · Put the tail of rat (into copper), it melts quickly; with Nākachikanı (Centipeda orbicularis) like that and with kamtaser like that it melts.
: 1. Jambırarasasampiştarasagamdhakalepitam /
Sulbapatram sarāvastham tripuțairyātipricatam / l,
RS. 5/53. 2. Tamrapatrāņi sūkşmāņi gomūtre pamcayāmakam / Kşiptv rasena bhāņde tad-dviguņam dehi gamdhakam ||
: Amlaparņi prapisyātha hyabhito dehi tāmrakam / Samyangnirudhya bhāņde tamagniṁ valaya yāmakam :/
Bhasmi bhavati tāmram tadyathestam viniyojayet", RS. 5/56-57. 3. Śulbatulyena sūtena balinā tatsamena ca / Tadardhamsena takena
silaya ca tadardhaya” Vidhaya kajjalım ślakşņām bhinnakajjalasannbhavam / Yantrādhāyavinirdiştagarbha / antroda.amtate | Kajjalan tāmrapatrāṇiparyāyeņa vinikşipet // prapacedyāmaparyantam svāmgaśítam vicarņayaet” 1/ Duştam ca grahaņım hared dhrụvamidad $11Somanāthabhidham.
RS. 5/58-61, 4. SRSS., Ch. X. 33. 5. Ibid., X. 34. 6. Ibid., X. S4,
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