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Next again give it 7 putas of Ajhijhārā, put it into a bottle and seal it up, put it into a Vālukāyantra, give it fire for 8 or 12 praharas. On its getting cooled down, take it out. (It is accomplished).".
Reduce mercury to paste tolā 1. and sal-ammoniac-tolā 1 into the juice of cyperus rotundus (gundi), then blow it up in a Naliniyantra three times, then take it out. The essence is completed. Give 1 māsā of it into tin-tolas 3; mercury gets dried up.
Purify mercury tā 3, bind over 2 thin roots of Alangium lamarkii, keep it into an earthen vessel, put mercury on it, give a seal into its mouth, give it fire of 1 prahara by putting a layer of cloth and clay over it. There become pills (gotikās) if it is crushed, it will be lime. It becomes like cow-dung, it does not fly.3
Crush the small fruits of Neem tree, rub or reduce mercury to paste in its oil in a mortar, give 21 puțas to it, give tinį bhār into it, make pill of them. True. 4
Give pațas (roasting) to ash of mercury tola 1 and gum of Amjharu (not identified) tola 1 with codhari hadasāṁkali (dissus quadrangularis) for 7 days. Next give the combination 3 puțas in the juice of the flower of of white sweet-scented oleander (Nerium odorum), get them dried up. Next close the thing into a bottle of glass-casket, give it fire of 50 wild dry cowdung cakes by putting it in a Velukāyantra. It is said by Khambhāti Ksatriya. (You) know that."
Rub mercury țā 4 in the juice of datura (thorny apple) and in the juice of Aloe vera. Copper burns; there becomes pill of it. Next rub it in the oil of daturā and keep it in oil, there becomes mouth.
Put mercury tola-1 into an egg and close it up into the powder' of wheat (i. e. close the hole with the paste of powder of wheat). Next put 4 sts. of lime into an earthen bowl, put the egg in the middle and close it by keeping its mouth open. Fill it up with water. Place it on fire by litting it. Put again water by knowing when water becomes less, give it fire for 21 praharas. Guţikā is produced, get it dried ud by putting it into milk. There becomes mouth in it.?
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1. SRSS., Ch. 5. 3. 2. SRSS., Ch. 5. 6. 3. SRSS., Ch. 5. 8. 4. Ibid., Ch. 5. 11. 5. SRSS., Ch. 8. 25. 6. Ibid., Ch. 8. 26. 7. SRSS., Ch. 8. 28
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