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juice of Aghāḍā (Achyranthus), mercury-ta 5 and the juice of Neem 21sr. for 7 days, dry up the juice, give it heat of fire. Mercury becomes butter1 ke with fire. True.
Triturate it in a red earthen Kunda (Vessel) and place it in a Kubā (shell). The pill of mereury thus gets segarated.1
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The process of killing Mercury
Mercury is killed (calcinated) with the juice of thorny apple (Dhatura)”.
Take one pala of milk of each of Ficus glomerata (odumbara), Calotropis gigantea, Ficus Bengalensis (Vața), lac-pala=1, magnetic iron-palas 4, when they are mixed together and cooked with the oil of linseed, their essence is helpful in killing mercury. It is called Madanamudrā.3
Rub mercury with the juice of Euphorbia pilulifera (Nagarjuni) in a mortar for a day, put it on fire and reduce it to paste for 7 praharas in a mortar, go on putting juice, mercury gets killed.*
Mercury rubbed with the juice of musket (moschusnahi), piper beetle (Nāgalatikā), water lily (Induvallabha), (Soymida febrifuga) and lotus (Droṇapuspi) Kuba) heated or roasted gently one by one seven times, quickly attains the state of ash (i.e. gets killed).
That is to say, give saturation to mercury with the juice of musket (Nahi). next give seven roastings (putas) with the juice of Nagarabeli (Piper beetle), then give seven putas to it with the juice of water lily, then give cuya (drop) of maund (10 srs) of the juice of Kuba (water lily=lotus). is calcinated (Bhasma) Mercury.
Take the water of the medicinal plant-Dudhiu (glory lily=gloriosa superbia), it exists in the bed (shelter) of tank and river, its leaf is like that of ocimum sanctum (Tulasi). There exists baribotha (not identified) on it. But the smell of its leaf becomes like the smell of a dead body, if mercury is put (mixed) into its juice, but satguna-Sulphur gets assimilated (jāraṇa), into it. It is a great art, crush it in the juice of seven-leaved thorny apple (Datura) for 1 day. Next give tuya (drops) to it in an earthen vessel. Silver gets settled, crush it in the juice of Evolvulus alsinodides Nāga and Dhaturā, give it tūyā (drops). There becomes ash (of mercury ?)'
1. SRSS., Ch. VI. 27.
2. SRSS., Ch. I; Ch. II. (comm).
3. Ibid.. Ch. 1.55
4. SRSS, Ch. 4. 21.
5. Ibid., Ch. 1. 38.
6. SRSS., Ch. 2. 1. 38 (comm).
7. SRSS., Ch. II. 23.
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