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Burn a big oyster shell of pearl-1 sr. and grind it, pound it by rubbing. Next get it drenched into the milk of Euphorbia antiquorum and make tablets of it, put them into an earthen bowl. Make 5 holes at the bottom of the bowl. Later on, dig a pit measuring 14 yards deep, dig a small pit into it, do as such that a small pot (lotā) 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 close the middle part of the bowl with clay up to the mouth of the bowl. Put 7 layers of cloth and clay over it from the mouth to the middle portion of the bowl or vessel. Next give it fire of goat's dung for 12 praharas. Mercury comes up. Fill up water below (under) into the cup and the copper vessel. Mercury will come up into it. True.1 Rub mercury 21, oxide of arsenic (Somal Samkhiu) (a kind of oxide of arsenic)-2; and Salammoniac 5, with honey 5/16 sr. Glose the whole thing into a small box. Give it fire for four praharas. Mercury is produced.
The process of purification of Mercury
The impurity of fire in mercury is purified by Triphalās-āmalaki (phyllanthus emblica), haritaki (Terminalia chebula), and Vaheda (Terminalia belerica). How ? Mercury becomes free from artificial defects, allowstin and lead by means of distillation.: .
Fixation of Mercury
· Rub mercury in the juice of Rādha(gā)lı, (a kind of Vanaspati) rub it in the jưice of daturā, next rub the oil of datura in the juice of Rādhāgali, fix it into a bottle for 15 days.
Jalası is of two kinds, one kind is like the leaf of Ocimum Album and Bhedi (White bassil) and the other is of thick leaf like pipali (piper longum).
Know that Thoriya Saji goes. Know that it is born much in the swamps behind the temple of Hanumān (the monkey god) on the bank of the river.
Mercury is fixed (in it)".
1. SRSS., Ch. XIII. 22. 2. SRSS., Ch. XIII. 2. 14 3. Ibid. Ch. II. (comm.) 4. SRSS., Ch. VIII. 27 5. Ibid., Ch. VI. 35.
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