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That is, take lead 5 tolas, gold 2 tolas, native cinnabar-2 tolas. orpiment 1 tola, sulphur 1 tola & realgar-1 tola, give them 28 saturations with the juice of Rasendragopi (a kind of plant or mercury), give them 28 sampuțas, cook them after grinding them in a mortar. Put them into a paceiyantra, put a layer of cloth-clay.
Over the paceiyantra. Next give it heat in a Valukāyantra for 12 praharas. On its getting cooled down, take it out. Mix silver tolas 22 with the essence, it becomes gold.
Poison, Anacardium (Semecarpus anacardium), aqunatic pipala and other thing, oil of pongamia glabra, vebhaha, (not identified) brąss together (Samciyā) are the roots of gold-making.
Lead moves in between Taurārasa+Sulphur (and) murasasa mercury, lead becomes modified, piercing mercury. Carpața says. it becomes, gold.
If black, red, yellow lead in black silver-7 divisions, is combined with pure gold, Nāgārjuna says : occupation is little necessary. 3
If mercury, carbonate of soda, milk's hedge, alum and 2 parts of orpiment are mixed with copper, the essence becomes yellow.
... One (part of) lead eats up (assimilates) ten parts of tin. Cinnabar and realgar have in this way. Old tin abrorbs lead. The god of wealth will sing in his house.5
Secret formula to make gold
I shall fix that niḥsamgam Mahāvīram (Ma=Hemamākṣikam=golden pyrite, hā=hātakaṁ=gold, VI=black mica, rarasaṁ=mercury by the combination of three(trisamghāta=Sukumāla croton oblongifolia(Nāgadamti) Aristolochia bracteata (Nai) and šarostemma brevistigma (Soma).
The essence of Ratta (Red Euphorbia piluifcra rakta dugdhika), C. antichorus (Kasina=Kțşņa bahuphalı), Luffa echinata, Andropogon serratus.
1. SRSS., Ch. 1. 59 2. SRSS., Ch. 1. 60 3. Ibid., 4. Ibid., 1. 61 5. SRSS., Ch. 1.12
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