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it, next put the bread of Bassia Latifolia into it. Put the bread of leaf of Indian teak tree over it. Next put the leaf of zinc over it next put the bread of Bassia latifolia over it. Then close the mouth of the earthen bowl and put a layer of cloth and clay over it. Give it fire of dry wild cowdung, burn the clay-cover on fire. Fire is to be given for 8 praharas, put gold 12 into it. Give the second Pata (roasting). It becomes good.1
The process of Lime-making
Take mercury tā 3, grind beetle (leaf) and arica nut (Supari) and lime together and extract the juice from them; it drinks milk for 1 prahara (i.e. drench the whole thing in milk). Next make samputa of the root of Amkola (Alangium lamarku-A. hexapellum); put mercury into it and seal up the Samputa (lid), give three layers of clay and cloth to it and put it on fire of dry owdung cakes for 4 ghaḍhis (24 x 4-96 minutes). On its getting cooled down, take it out. There will be lime."
The seven processes of taking out the essence
1. Take out the essence of (metals and minerals) blowing dirt in a Damaruyantra.
2. Rub sulphur sr. in asava (essence) of grapes and take it out by blowing its dirt.
3. Rub Somala (oxide of arsenic) sr. and aramjoli erandi (Ricinus Communis) in the white portion of an egg of a hen and take out the essence by blowing dirt.
4. Take Samgharaph (Himgula) (cinnabar). Keep amla (phyllanthus emblica) by dipping it in the juice of lemon and rub Samgharaph in that water. Take out the essence by blowing dirt."
5. Rub golden pyrite sr. and borax sr. in honey, and clarified butter, next there does not remain jeharau of Bharata. Make construction of the whole thing and rub it, give coal into the mouth (of the oven).
By doing thus, take out the thing of the botton portion.
6. Rub sal-ammoniac
calotropis gigantea by blowing dirt.
7. Take out the essence
Mulanakṣatra.
These are the seven processes of taking out the essence.*
1. SRSS., IX. 43.
2. SRSS., Ch. V. 7.
3. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2.7
4. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2.7
sr. and lime of oyster shell sr. in the milk of sr. and cow's milk sr. and take out the essence
of mica by blowing out dirt on the day of
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