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placed first below, being placed into the box it gets cooked by forty puțas (roastings). Getting itself melted, it becomes hard like diamond. If it is held on fire, it extinguishes fire instantly. Even camphor does not fly, this is its test?
Chemical process for making medicine Pound lime of Oyster shell tā. 5, and mercury țā. 5, with the juice of, Aloe vera up to 1 prahara. Give it (combination) fire in a sarāvasamputa. Ash of mercury is thus killed. Eighty four vāyus (gaşes) go away (i.e. get cured) if it is taken. In joints mercury becomes padya.* (?) It becomes vedhaka (piercing),
Chemical processes for gold-making Kill mercury, sulphar, Kaņeri realgar, orpiment oxide of arsenic (sasisomala) with the juice of Aristolochia bracteata, apply the essence. of silver, it becomes gold. It is said by vitarāga3 (dispassionate). That is, mix mercury țā. 2, realgar-Kaņeriya tā. 4, orpiment tā, 2, oxide of arsenic tā. 1 together, give them seven puțas (roastings) with the juice of small and large Euphorbia pililifera (Nāgārjuni), give them seven puțas with the juice of the leaf of piper beetle (Nāgarveli), putting Kāthácūna (lime mixed with Khadir) into it, take out the essence (rasa), give it 17 puțas of the juicc of the leaf of Unmatta (datura), give it 7 puțas (roastings) of Ajhijbārā (a kind of vanaspati), give it 7 puțas of the juice of
hasini (Hellicterus, Isora), give it seven putas of Marahathi, give it 7 putas with Hiravanirui cotton of Hiravani (a kind of vanaspati). Again give it 7 putas with juice of Ajhijhārā, seal it up by putting it, into a bottle. Then heat it into a Valukayāntra with fire for 12 praharas. Take it out by making it completely cooled down. There is success. Thus Šri Siddhāntopadeśa-vyākhyā-leśāıthah.+
Other Chemical Processes .. Rub mercury tā. 3 or ţā. 9 in the juice of Cymnema Sylvestro (Midhasingi) or Fogonici Arabica (Dhamāsā) for 4 days. The pill (guţikā) gets accomplished and bound. Next put it into the fruit of Datura and place
1. SRSS., Ch. 14, VV. 10-14, * Not explainable in the absenbe of commentary, 2. SRSS., Ch. 8.24. 3. SRSS., Ch. 1.50. 4. SRSS., Ch. 2.1 50. (Comm.)
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