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(pamdura=devadāla), Aconitum, chasmanthamum (Si Syngikavişam), small brinjal (Ri=laghu ringanı) and Agave (Nikiya Ketaki) are to be taken. Besides, gloriosa Superba (Siya=Lamgalika), Seeds of Ahikahari Astercantha longifolia (Kusa gaha), mimosa (Bhiru-lajjaluka), Hydroctyle asiatic (Jalamamḍanikā), Ambavanı (Sthalamaṁḍanikā), Cuscuta reflex-Nabhamamḍanikā.1
Mica, killed lead and gold cannot give up brightness (fire-form), due to their brightness (full of their quantities of brightness)."
Reduce mercury pal. 1 to paste in the juice of ocimum sanctum for 4 praharas, next grind it in the juice (or sap) Clenolepis Cerusiformis (ubhayalingi - Sivalingi bitter and Bhagalingi=sweet).Next melt zinc-paisā 2 bhar and make it a hard hump with mercury, next make soot (Kajali) of orpiment pai. 1, borax (sonro) pai. 1 bha, alum pai 1. sambhara lona (Salt of Sambara lake) pai. 1 or that of that zinc. Nevt having taken a ripe wood apple (Feronia elephantinum=Kapitthag), make a hole into it, put soot (Kajali) into it and give hard pieces of it into its mouth. After that, reduce to paste the pieces of the frame of house or salt (together) and mix water into it (paste). When the whole thing becomes soft (or light) like wax, mix it into a piece of cloth and put 7 layers of clay and cloth over it. Next lit fire of dung of she-goat 2 srs, make it (fire) smokeless. Put the wood apple into the flame of fire by making it smokeless and smokeless. Keep the second oven ready by making it smokless (i.e. the fire of dung of she-goat) before the first one gets cooled down. Thus repeat this process for eight days. Next when the whole thing gets cooled down, take out the wood apple.3
Make a leaf of best copper and purify it, then mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. There becomers gold. It is true.1
Fill up a jar with the urine of an ass and some zinc leaves into it, place double Sambhara salt on each leaf and dry them up in a place (or plate) and cleanse them of impurities.
Next melt 1 tola of copper and mix 1 masa of zinc into it. There becomes gold.5
1. SRSS., II Commentary.
2. Ibid.
3. SRSS, Ch. 3. 1.
4. Ibid.. 3., 2
5. Ibid.. 3. 3
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