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a layer of cloth and clay over it and burn it in fire. On its getting cooled down, take the thing out...
Take cinnamon bark (taja) pai 1, Alangium 1 amarku (Akalakaro), Rheum emodi (Revamcini) pai 1 and that of mercury.
Make a cup of silver tola 1, put these things into it and crush it. Next drench (put) the wine of Muhudā (Bassia Latifolia)-5 srs. and the juice of lemon-5 srs. into the cup. Next, when Khicadi=mixture=(hotpotch) -100 srs. bubbles, put the whole thing into it. Then close the mouth and make a smearing over it."
Wash mercury by mixing it into the juice of sweet citrus lemon, give drops (tuyā) of the juice of Vagadānā to sal-ammoniac. Give fire to the earthen pot by putting the whole thing into it. It becomes dhāni (a stage of chemical action of mercury) by swelling. 3
Put mercury 1, Sulphur 1, and alum 1 into a bottle and give it fire for 4 praharas. It is best in taking.
Combine mercury tā 1, semen of ox tā 3 and green vitriol or irani sulphate tā 6 into tin and rub them in the juice of Alhaji maurorum (Javāsı) for 3 days. Smear two tin cups (trapu-vāțakı) of sr. make 3 Kharadas (?) smeared inside, get them dried up in the shade. Next give (put) a layer of cowdung and clay over them, heat (cook) them separately. There becomes powder. Next give 3 saturations of powder. Next put 1 bhār and fix mercury (?).
Rub mercury in asaṁ. avoke and Euphorbia pilulifera for 7 days in the juice of red branch of Achyranthus aspera. There becomes Ā, Kho, A Daṁ.Take mercury tāį, skin (bark) of the horn of a sheep tā , hoof of a horse, tāį, take tips of them only, put them into gajaveli (iron pot ?), it melts; iron pai 21, iron melts in Rāsaga & copper, give mineral calamine pai. 1, molasses tā 9 under and over them, put a layer of cloth and clay over the bowl. Thus give it fire three times.?
Grind killed mercury țā 1, borax 1, while glass tā 1, white Dhānyabhra, (mica) tā 1 in the milk of Euphorbia antiquorum (vajır), rub Haṁkhedi gandhaka (a kind of sulphur) .pai 4, pāsa (paro=mercury) pai 4, and seed
1. SRSS, Ch. 8. 32. 2. Ibid., Ch. 8. 35. 3. SRSS, Ch. 8. 13. 4. Ibid., Ch. 8. 22. 5. SRSS., Ch. 8. 30. 6. Ibid., Ch. 9. 10. The meaning in not clear in the absence of a
commentary. 7. SRSS.. Ch. 9. 53
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