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The Process of making Mercury fire-proved Take out the juice of the leaf of Castor 'plant, give tāyā (drops) to mercury with it for 21 days by putting mercury into an earthen vessel. Mercury becomes fire-proved. . .,
Take a mortar and a pestle of black Alangium lamarkii. Rub mercury tola 10 in it (mortar) for 1 or 2 days. "Mercury becomes butter-like and fire-proved.'
Some Chemical Processes of Mercury Mix 20 parts of Sulphụr and 20 parts of Salammoniac-rasa (mineral) by consideration. The whole thing is to be put on fire for thirty praharas.
Then there takes place the process of Rasa Sindura Samyoga (chemical coubination of minerals).
The first letter is ka, the last letter is ka. Between them there lie two letters, i.e. Kuravaka (Berleria Cristata). Lead is killed with it, mercury is dried up. The people enjoy it by dividing. 4. .
Take mercury tā 1, a fine strong (hard) piece of Cloth-1 cubit (in length); give 5 or 7 puțas of dew-water to it. (Khāra) makes it very hard, put mercury into the fold of the clothing by wrapping it. Next sew the cloth.
Then put the cloth into a new earthen vessel, seal it up and keep the earthen vessel into the dust bin of the village for 2 or 3 months. The cloth, getting burnt, will be reduced to ash. That ash dries up (sucks) kathir (tin).5 .
Take mercury, sulphur, Kaneriu realgar, orpiment and oxide of arsenic. Combine mercury țā. 8, sulphur tā 8, Kaneriu realgar tā 4, orpiment țā 2 and oxide of arsemic tā 1 and give 7 puțas to the combined thing with the juice of small and large Euphorbia pilulifera; next give the combination 7 puțas (roastings) with the leaf of aiper beetle. Next put lime (Kātho cuño) into it and take out the juice, give it 7 puțas of Datura, 7 puțas of the juice of Ajhijhādā;' * then 7 puțas of Dolichondron falcata, 7 puțas of peniroyal (Spilanthus oleracia), 7 puțas of the juice of Hirabona 1 these puțas.7 1. SRSS. Ch. III. 108. 2. Ibid., Ch. 5. 14. 3. SRSS., Ch. I. 31. 4. Ibid., Ch. 51. 5. SRSS., Ch. 5. 2.
1x a kind of Vanaspali
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