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again tola of camphor on it and keep the things into it for six months. Keep it up and seal up the cocoaunt. There becomes pill (guți), rub it in the juice of Murraya exotic (Kāmani), Ocimum Sanctum (Rāma Tulsi) for 12 praharas. Rub it in Kācalı with the butt of Neem. Mercury is fixed.
Rub tin 1, mercury 1, Kāyam Navasāra (a kind of Salammoniac) and carbonate of potash=Potassiaum carbonus (javakhāra) in the juice of the leaf of Aloe vera. Close up the mixture into a crucible having the shape of cow's udder (Gostana). Give it fire of coal, boil Candārk (a kind of vanaspati (?), brinjal and seed to Balanites Aegyptica Syn B. Roxburghii, sulphur and cuu * (as), put the thing into a bottle. The process makes mercury fixed. It is experimented by Soni Devaji.
It you dip the aforesaid things in the essence of Achyranthus aspera and rub and smear it to the plate and put it in the sunshine, oil comes out.
Like this, make juice of the five parts of Aloe vera or make decoction of it and dip the powder of seeds of Jamālagoța (a kind of vanaspati) into it by making its "powder and rub it. Oil comes out.
Put the leaf of Guța into a bottle, place sulpher over it place it, layer by layer: Take the essence like cūyā (drops), take the thing (artha), that thing will come into use, it fixes mercury, while iron gets killed by its use. ?
Rub ţā 5 of each of Achyranthus aspera (aghāļā) wedelia calendulacea (bhāngrā), black daturā. Halulau (Myrobalan ?), Dhāholi (a kind of vanaspati) and mercury to. 3. Mercury is fixed. 3
Cook mercury in the juice of leaf of Hastikanda (Colceąsia Indica); it gets fixed by this process.
Rub mercury in green tobaco in a Kācala (a kind of pot). Mercury gets fixed. 5
Fixation of Mercury from Tridoşas (three impurities)
Dirt, fire and poison : It is fixed by the process of burning (heating) it in combination with thrce things-white mica, orpiment and silver.
X Not identified. 1. SRSS., Ch. 11. 14. 2. SRSS., Ch, 11. 19. 3. SRSS., Ch. XI. 29. 4. Ibid., XI. 30x. 5. Ibid., XI, 33. 6. SRSS., Ch. II.
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