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Take Malla Dāļimiu (a kind of oxide of arsenic) tola 2 or 3.--The wood of Butea monosperma (palasa lakadi), while getting burnt, will get reduced to white ash, it is called Palāšakhāra. Rub that somala with water and palāšakhāra. It will be of red colour, put that powder-māsā-1 māsā into Kathir (a kind of tin) tola-2. There will be silver.' If one māsā of that powder is mixed into 2 tolas of copper, there becomes gold.
Combine together lead-gadiyāno 2, mercury gadiyāno 2, powder of Khasāragaloha (a kind of iron) gadiyāno 4, and realgar-gadiyāno-4, and
grind them to powder, then rub that powder with the milk of Euphorbia nerufolia.
A leaf of lead is to be smeared with that medicine and melted by putting it into a crucible, There will be good gold.3x,
Take it out. Smear it with the juice of citrus lemon, put it on fire, it will be of the value of 11 carats.*
Crush Bergenia ligulata (Rāşāņa pipari) hard (gāļhi), melt silver, and pour it into that. There becomes gold.
Crush mineral calamine (Kharpara) 1 sr. and onosma echioides (Nalia) -2 șrs. in a mortar; grind them finely. Ferment it in the urine of horse in Dolikāyantra, for a month, next put it into the urine of ass, seal up the mouth of the pot. Keep it for a month in that state. Then take out the whole thing and dry it up, next mix up khāra (salt or ash) of Aghādā in ith part, seal it up by putting a cover of cloth and clay, give it gajapuțăgni.
On its getting cooled down, take out the essence, it becomes hundred fold (100%) piercing into copper. Copper becomes gold.
Give saturation of oxide of arsenic tā. 3 and chloride of sodium (Siaindhava) tā. 3 with the milk of Calotropis gigantea for 3 days (by rubbing them in a mortar. Next make a ball of the mixture and ferment the ball in the milk of she-sheep (ewe) pai. 20 in a Dolikāyantra. Then mix 1 tola of copper with 1 māsā of the cssence. There bocomes gold of 8 carats.? 1. SRSS., Ch. 3.9 2. Ibid, 3. SRSS., 9x 4. Ibid. 5. SRSS., Ch. 3. 19 6. SRSS., Ch. 3. 20 7. Ibid., Ch. 3. 21
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