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the bile of goat and the whole thing is to be placed on the furnace for a month. Thus having made bida (bițakhāra), next make a leaf of blcak mica, cast it into Yavārānala (fire lit by the straw of barley) for 8 praharas, melt it with sahavastra, with phogakandalas or durvajālas (not identified). It gets (comes) flowing and is free from snā (dhātuselement).'
Vedhā :
The process by which mercury is mixed with Vyavāyi medicines (i.e. opium, etc.) and cast into any metal is called Vedha (Piercing).
Krāmaņa :
Krāmaņa is the process of alchemy which is made by taking equal portions of each of the dirt of the ear of buffalo, woman's milk and borax to rub them together throughout the day. Then make the essence of poison, cinnabar, calamine, red Kāntaka (a kind of iron ?), Indragopa (a kind of insect born in the rainy season), wax and excreta of crow and put mercury into the middle, alum and the essence over and under respectively. Having given glass-powder into it, heat the same in a closed. crucible. If it is done, mercury undergoes krāmaņa accomplished by this process. 3
Udghātana :
The Chemical process by which transparent colour is brought about in a purified thing by removing its impurities (dirts or dregs) with mercury by purifying it is called Udghāțana.
In the case of silver lead is to be taken out, while in that of gold lead is to be given.
Mercury is fixed by the combination of amlavarga (group of acids), Khāravarga (group of salts, i.e. urine and salts, etc.) and rasavarga (group of minerals).
Mercury is purified by the intellect of Padalipta Sūri, an alchemist: O Lord (mercury) show the process of destruction of all sins-poverty, disease and old afe. (Sarvaduritas)".
1. SRSS. II. Comm. 3. Ibid., 5. SRSS., II. (Comm.)
2. Ibid. 4. Ibid.
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