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Lead fills up (assimilates). Calamine (zinc carbonate), put guyā (or sūya =mercury ?) over it. Gorāmāi (yellow mother) serves rice, there, becomes a house of gold. 1
Mix the juice of the leaf of the plant of Serpentina with the urine of Sundari elephant, lead becomes gold by garbha-nāga (not explained) (when put into the womb of the essence of medicine) after heating it.”
That is to say, take the root of Nāgaphaņi (Serpentina=thora=phanimanasā=Sleepers' thorn) and its root with the urine of Sinduri elephant. When lead is saturated with the essence, it becomes gold.3 How ?
Take out the juice of the leaf of Nāgaphant, combine it with the urine of Sundai elephant. By heating lead and rāog (tin), put them into the essence of the medicine. They get converted into gold. *
Lead gets killed, pierces into the body of mercury. Mercury is not found killed without lead. Bind (Fix) mercury with the ropes of lead. Carpața says : it becomes gold.
Lead drinks (assimilates) calamine (Zinc carbonate), Zinc carbonate assimilates mercury. When the vessel of zinc carbonate begin to break up, there is joy in every house (because of making gold).
Mix carbonate of soda, chloride of sodium, alum, godantı orpiment and emarald (garudavihamgana) by taking them in equal proporations. If one rati of this essence is mixed with one tola (of copper ?) (there becomes gold).?
Drench Sambara salt in the juice of Citrus lemon and the juice of jadi (its roots ?), make essence in a burnt earthen pot and remove poverty
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8. SRSS,, Ch. 1, 32 1. Ibid., 1. 33 2. Ibid., Ch. 1. 33 (Comm.) 3. SRSS,, Ch. 2. 1.33 (Comm) 4. SRSS,, Ch. 1. 36 5, SRSS., Ch. 1. 37 QUSRSS., Ch. 1. 39 7. SRSS., Ch. 1. 40
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