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Make a combination of these articles-mercury to. 2 and lead to 2, and a hump of them, put sulphur tola 4 and rub these three medicines, in the juice of Aloe Vera (Kumārirasa) for 1 prahara. Pour the whole thing into a bottle and seal it up. Put 3 layers of cloth and clay over it. Give it heat in Valukayantra for 1 or 2 praharas. The essence is accompli shed. Mix 1 masa of the essence into 1 tola of copper. (There becomes); gold.1
Take the wood of sweet and bitter Nimba Melia azadirachta. -Rub it with water like sandal (wood), smear a crucible. First purify copper, make Kantakavedhi (thorn-piercing), leaf of it. Make a ball of it like a paper ball and put it into the crucible. Melt it by heating it in fire after making it roasted (puta) put 1 or 2 māsas of copper into the crucible and melt it, there will be gold. This is true."
Give 7 putas (roastings) to oxide of arsenic (malla=somala) tola 1, sal-ammoniac (Niṣadala) tola 1 and alum tola 1 in the milk (sap) of Banyan tree Ficus Bengalensis-Vatadugdha, 7 putas in the juice of castor plant. Ricinus communis, 7 putas in the juice of Jatropha glandulifera= sunflower, (Ratnajyoti), 7 putas in the milk of Euphorbia antiquorum (Vajri), 7 putas in the milk of Calotropis gigantea (arkadugdha), 7 putas in the juice of Aloe vera (Kumārirasa), 7 putas in Kamkaruṁda (a kind of plant), 7. putas in brinjal and 7 puras in vedhedudheli (Euphorbia piluli-Fera.3
Take red sandal (Ratamjani)=Petro carpus santalinus, make it into pieces, soak them into oil and take oil (out of them) in a patalayantra. Rub mercury pai. 1 Bhara in that oil for 1 prahara. Put Rumex vesicarius (Cuu) in a crucible with two parts (musāmen-samputamen) and give gentle slow. dow fire (mandagni) to it for one ghadi (24 minutes). On its getting cooled take out the whole thing. Rub it again in oil for 1 prahara, (put) it into a samputa, give gentle fire to it for (lid) ghaḍi. Thus do it thrica heat mercury will be goṭaka (ball-like). Put that ball of mercury into a samputa, make (lit) fire slolwy and slowly for 1 prahara. The goṭaka of mercury will swell like patāsā (a kind of sweet prepared from guḍ). If that mercury vala 1 is taken with betel leaf, 1 here will be fourfold appetite. If 1 rati of it is mixed into 1 tola of copper, there will be gold.*
Rub orpiment tola 2 with the juice of Nilaguli (a kind of plant) for 4 praharas. next grind it with the juice of lemon for 4 praharas. Then mix 1 masā of that powder into 1 tola of copper. It becomes gold."
1. SRSS., 3. 4
2. TRSS. ch. 3. 5
3. SRSS. Ch. 3.6
4. SRSS. Ch. 3.7.
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