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of limboli (Neem) 1 sr. for 3 days. Put the whole thing into a fire-proof bottle and seal it up. Put a cork of Neem into its mouth and 7 layers of cloth and clay over it. Heat it in a Damaruyantra by litting fire of 2 maunds of dry dung of he-goat. Furīher it is to be known from the guru.
Rub mercury tā 21, tabaki orpiment, tā 21 and opium tā 27 with the juice of Solanum nigrum (Kācamācı) for one day. Next make their tablets. Smear an earthen vessel (bowl) from its middle (part) up to its bottom. Next put the tablets into that earthen vessel and close it with a new 'lid and seal it up. As said above, next fill up the vessel with sand, give it fire for 32 praharas. Feed a Brāhmaṇa when a Yantra is placed (on fire), feed a Brāhmaṇa when the Yantra , is taken out in the name of Hanumanta. Next on its getting cooled down, take out the essence.
Put mercury pai 23 into a zinc cup of pai 5, bhar. Fill salt into an earthen bowl; next mix cinnabar 1, realgar 1, orpiment 1 and Somala (oxide of arsenic) 1 under (it) and put (give) the cup from above.
. Give cüyā (drops) of lemon, black Aloe vera and urine of ass till the the whole thing becomes limelike. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper, particularly give it ciya of lemon and Aloe vera.3
Give drops of the juice of five parts of raddish (Mūlā pamcānga) to tin for 25 praharas till it melts. Again give drops to zinc for 25 praharas till it melts. Again (if) you give drops (to copper) copper melts; it melts on fire for so many times. 1 rati of mercury pierces into copper 64%
The Process of Making Pārāpāņi (Water of mercury) Make a little water of Sal-ammoniac tā 30. put mercury tā 10 into it and rub it. First keep separate a little water of sal-ammoniac, put that water little by little and rub it (mercury ?). When the whole thing is rubbed, put it into an earthen vessel, and a lid on it and wrap it up with a layer of cloth and clay over it. Place the vessel on the furnace (oven), make dipāgni for 1 prahara. Again take it out. Put the whole thing into a mortar. Pour that preserved water of sal-ammoniac little by little and rub it again by the first method, put the whole thing into an earthen vessel and place it on fire, make dipāgni for 1 prahara, Thus give it fire 23 times. Next put the whole thing into a glass-casket, spread out straw into an earthen vessel, put the casket into it and place it (Vessel) on the furnace, give fire below it till the thing of the casket becomes water.
This is the process of making water of mercury.". 1. SRSS., Ch. 9. 56. 2. SRSS., Ch. 10. 26. 3. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2. 17. IX fiower, fruits, etc. up to roots. S 4. SRSS., 11. 7. 5. SRSS., Ch. 7. 27.
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