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Chemical Process of Mercury :
Put mercury ga. 1 into Rūtha(pā ?) naraļi (not identified) gadiyāna 64 by melting it. There will be truth.'
Take out dirt from mercury sr., next filter it with a hard piece of cloth, next rub it with the juice of Ocimum sanctum for 14 days, do not allow it (to) get dried up. Next put Ciniu camphor tā 5 into it and mix with it. Next fill it into a glass bottle, again fill 1 sr. of the juice of ocimum sanctum into it, then put 7 layers of cloth and clay over it.”
Put the urine of goat-5 srs., milk of Calotropis gigantea-1 sr. and milk of Euphorbia nivuiia (Thohar)-1 sr. into the horsedung for 21 days. Next take the whole thing out and place it on fire and give fire of Castor plant (Ricinus communis) under it. It gets dried up.3
Put Somalakhāra (Oxide of arsenic) 1 tola into these three juicesthe juice of prickly pear=Slipper Thorn (=Nāgaphani)-1 sr., the juice of Lagenaria Vulgaris (Kaqui Tumbi)-1 sr. and the juice of red lotus (Kalbāra), 1-sr into an earthen bowl and cook it in a Dolikāyantra. Do as such that Somala remains 3 fingers high from the juice. Make dipāgni under it (Dolikāyantra). Take out the essence and make a hole into an Amorphophallus companulatus. Put it (Somala, etc.) into it and close it (Kanda). Smear it with paddy (husk) and cowdung. Put a layer of cloth and clay over it (Kanda); give it gajapuțāgni for 4 praharas. Tin sucks (dries up) the water. 4
The process of Svedana 5 Medicine is to be cooked in a Dolāyantra with Kāñjika (sour liquid thing) of urine of cow, buffalo, goat, men and ass.
The process of Jāraṇa:
It is to be accomplished by making biļa (Bitaluña), powder of equal portions of each of the medicines like gorocana (golestone obimmer-a scented article named gorocana), alum, sal-ammoniac, sulphur, orpiment, syāda, (not identified), borax (Saubhāgya) and (silver ?) are to be cast into
1. SRSS., Ch. 13. 16 2. SRSS., Cha 13, 18 3. SRSS., Ch. 13. 2.3 4. SRSS., Ch. 13. 24 5. SRSS., Ch. II. (Comm.)
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