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Rub mercury in the juice of the bark of Sohijanā (Śobhañjana= Horse radish tree, Morigapterigo sperma) for 3 or 4 days. Then mercury will be black lump like collyrium; put it into an earthen pot, give it fire slowly and slowly as many times till the juice gets burnt up (dried up). That mercury will be grain-like; it will be butter-like at the time, i.e., smooth or soft like butter. Makhaniu pārada is accomplished.1
Make Dhanyabhra of Svetabhraka (white mica), cook it by putting it into the juice (milk) of the ripe leaf of Kanțali Thohara (Milk's Hedge= Euphorbia Trayogona). Put milk pai 4 and mercury ta 9, this much. There will be pill of mercury. True.
If mercury pai 1 is rubbed (or reduced to paste) with these two-thę juice of Utakata (Thistle Simhali pippali-Brahmadandı, pai 1 and that of the tubber (gatha) of green turmeric pai-1 bhar, there will be butter, i.e. it will be soft like butter.3
Take the powder of pure gajavela iron pai 4, put the juice of citrus medica-2 srs. into a glass-casket and a pot of Nimaḍa (Neem), put the powder of iron into them and close the mouth. Stir it up for 4 or 5 days, again keep it, again stir it up for 4 or 5 days. In this way keep the same for 25 days. Iron, getting melted, becomes water Reduce mercury to paste with all these, after rubbing mercury becomes butter-like. True.*
Take Harabasi-its name: [1] rice (cokha), [2] Shrebera Swietenioides (Nakhası), [3] Rubia cordifolia (Majith), [4] Liquorice root-glycyrrhiza, (jethimadh) and [5] Rheum edoci (Revamcini). Crush these to fine particles and take equal portion of each of them. Put 1 māsa of mercury under and 1 masa of it over in a Vajramuṣā (strong Crucible), Put two ratis of mercury with two māsas of medicine thus prepared. Mercury swells; mercury should be seen dhedhiu ×? But the Jina knows tattva (principle). Mix mercury with Ricinus communis and centipeda orbicularis (Erandi and Chikanı). Mercury becomes butter-like.5
1. Ibid., Ch. III. 22.
2. Ibid., Ch. III. 55.
3. SRSS., Ch. III. 56. 4. SRSS., Ch. III. 64. X Not clear.
5. SRSS., Ch. VI. 18.
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