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Next give the whole thing 108 saturations of Aloe Vera. Then put realgar to. 1 into them and keep it steeped. Next make 2 open crucibles out of the excreta (earth) of earth-worms; give them fire of dry wild cowdung cakes-2 srs. Thus give them fire 108 times.
Rub. Po (not identified) 1, pour milk of Euphorbia Antiquorum 41 srs., oil 4) srs. and juice of datura sr. into an iron pan and give the cake of udad (a kind of pulse) into them); give it fire of wood of calotropis gigantea for 4 praharas.
Take it out in the morning. Keep it up to the evening, allow it (to)
settle.'
Combine together pure mercury and purified lead. Rub them with the juice of Udarakanni (Ipomaea reniformis) for 1 day. · Next rub them in the juice of Amaranthus (Tādalaja )=Tricolour var tristis) for 1 day, rub them with the juice of Rātivoni for 1 day in the juice of Aradusā (Ailanthus excelsa Roxb) for 1 day. Next make the cake of Adad (a kind of pulse). Put mercury and yellow clay into that cake with the juice of datura and make a pill of both.
Put killed lead and mercury into the pill, place that pill into an earthen vessel; fill the vessel with salt. Next give it fire for two praharas up to 5 days. Thus purify sulphur-double the quantity of mercury and lead, put the pill over it, put the leaf of Tamaridus Indica and give it a cover. Burn it for 2 praharas up to 5 days. That is, it is produced.”
Some medicinal processes : Accomplished by Chemical action.
The wise grinds garlic 100 tolas finely and casts it into a small copper box on all sides. Put one piece of camphor (which weighs fourteen tolas) into the box and make copper leaf. Wrap over it a layer of cloth soaked (besmeared) with clay and next lit fire of the pieces of dry wild cowdung cake. When the fire becomes smokeless, put the box into the fire, cover it up on all sides, not less nor more. On the cooking down of fire, take out the thing by order (one by one) and put the same as previously done into the second box
As only garlic burns without camphor, so give fire to it with care Intelligent ! Take out the unburnt garlic and use if (again) as done before. It is burnt, another garlic is to be taken here no doubt. Garlic is to be
1. SRSS. Ch. 8.34 2. SRSS., 7.24 3. SRSS., Ch. 14, W. 5.9.
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