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Grind sal- ammoniac tā 3, particles of copper ţā 1 with the juice of citrus lemon in a 'copper pot. All becomes liquid (rasa). Then it is completed.
Jamgāla (essence or Verdigris or green rust) is accomplished. Next take Jamgāla țā. 2 and fresh particles of tutaha (a kind of chemical substance) tā. 1. Make them wet (drench them) with the juice of citrus lemon for 4 praharas. Put borax and melt them, iron comes out separately. There becomes copper. Take it. Mix silver with equal portion of copper. There become 6 carats of it. Next make it Jotaka pieces of gold."
Take a piece of cinnabar pai. 1 bhār, Next make a bread of the powder of wheat and put cinnabar into the bread. Repeat the process into 108 breads. Then put the piece of cinnabar into an iron cup, put over it these two things-honey pai. 24. bhār and clarified butter pai. 24 bhār and cook it. When the piece of cinnabar dries up clarified butter and honey, then take (it) out. Next wash the cup or put it into the cup. Put again honey and clarified butter, make fire of coal ;sr.
Like this give it 108 fires. Then it is purified. If 1 rati of the essence is taken with beed-leaf, there takes place an appetine of 2 or 4 srs., put 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. There becomes gold. It becomes like gold.coin.
Give tāyā (drops) of the juice of Hotha (a kind of plant) to mercury to 1, give it gentle fire and tüya of the flower of hotha over it. It is accomplished. Take the thing after '1 of 1 ghadi (6 minutes) and blow it up; agaip put mercury into that crucible, again give the juice of the flower of Hotha, again make it cool, again put it for the third time in a crucible and give it the flower of Hotha. At the bottom the essence swells. Mix it into copper tola 1. There will be gold.3
Put mercury tā 7 and sulphur tā 21 in a mortar and make collyrium. Next give 360 saturations to it with the juice of Aloe vera. Then it should be put on fire. There does not become smoke, such butter-like thing gets melted. When firc gets extinguished, it is accomplished. There becomes gold by the smearing of the essence on the leaf of silver.
1. SRSS. Ch. 3. 10 2. SRSS., Ch. 5. 13. 3. SRSS, Ch. 5. 15. 4. SRSS., Ch. 5. 17.
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