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water (or a little hard grains of rice) for 2 ghaḍīs (24 × 2=48 minutes). Next that rasa gets melted.1
Take Somalakhara (ash or oxide of arsenic) and pure sabu (soap ?). Take milk of calotropis gigantea 1 srs. and 2 srs. respectively and rub them with it. Next make pills of them and put them into a crucible, put a layer of cloth and clay over it. Next give it fire in a Velukayantra for 5 praharas methodically. Take out the whole thing and worship it."
Pra. dekh. hāvāzł 10.
Give conch-shell to mercury by baking it, give it to oxide of arsenic by killing mercury. Good alum is given puta in milk, mix. 1 māsa of the essence into 1 tola of lead. (the process may lead to the making of silver ?)
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Grind Cinnabar pa. 1 in the juice of Aloe vera and give Bishops weed (Trachy spermum ammi syn. carum copticum (ajamo) under and over it. Thus give it fire 3 times, reduce mercury to paste in borax, give it dipagni 3 times. Next on grinding these three, pound them in the juice of Mesuna ferra (Kesuḍi). Make two tablets of them. Put inside silver and copper plates and give the gum (gund) of Butea frondosa (Khākhar) over and under them, heat the whole thing in an open crucible."
Take seeds of Timiri Uttaranajyoti pai, 4 or 8 and Sulphur pai 4, heat them in a Damaru yantra. True."
Take the essence of grapes
sr. Keep the thing (lead) drenched into it for 3 days. Grind it and next take it out by washing; white lead comes out. It is said by patrāghaḍa.
It is fire-proved."
Grind Somala (oxide of arsenic) sr. with cow's milk-1 sr. Mix by drops and next bind it. Next grind it (Somala) in sr. of milk and remove its dirt. Take it out by washing. There remains the butter of sal
1. SRSS., Ch. x. 40
2. SRSS, Ch. IX. 46
3. SRSS., Ch. 9.50
zx. Not explainable in the absence of a commentary.
4. SRSS., Ch. 9. 52.
5. SRSS., Ch. 9. 54.
6. SRSS., Ch, IX. 66. 7. Ibid., Ch. IV. 67.
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