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Smear the Nepalese, copper-leaf with Hemakuştha (dung of a first born elephant) and Bakajala by piercing it with tanka (or thorn borax ? Heat it in fire. There becomes gold.
First dung of a just new born elephant is called Hemakuştha. Reduce it to ash and besmear it with the juice of citrus lemon. It is to be dried up on fire like thin crisp cake made of flour mixed with spices. There becomes gold. . .
Boil thick curd water 10 șrs. Allow it to be crystallized (vitaradava); when it becomes curd (crystalized) by getting separated, then bind it in a piece of cloth, just as Srikhanda (is bound). Take out water. Next put it in a copper vessel. Then put Tesadi-1 sr. into it like alum. Pour over it the juice of citrus lemon- sr. and stir it up and mix together. Next give a copper lid into the mouth of the copper vessel. Then put it into Vkaraļā (dus! bin of the village) for seven days. Next take it out and get it dried up. A pure essence is accomplished. Money will come on its sale.3
: Reduce to paste mercury țā 1 and realgar ţă 1 and cook them into an earthen vessel: Put over their combination the gum-the gum of Eugenia Jambolana (Jambu) or Michelia champaca (Campā), or purging Cassia (giramala). There becomes the essence. Put it into silver, copper and lead. There becomes gold.
Then there is Pharasatāri (a kind of plant). Press it in the juice of the vegetable of Luni (portulacaea) and grind wax, put silver on them by melting it. There becomes gold of 14 carațs. Grind the seed of Sida
cordifolia (Balabija) and make its leaves powdered, put them into copper . 11 times by meltiņg it. There becomes gold. Good gold is produced.*
Dip natron țā 1, borax tā. 2, Sal-ammoniac ţă 3 and lime ta 9 into 11 st. of water. Next keep, that water tā ? and Sulphur ta 3 in an iron pot. Damatanai (not clear). There becomes gold.
Make a cup of Zinc tā 9 and put mercury; grind salt and give it at the bottom of an aarthen pot. Put the cup of zinc over it. Next give cūvo (drops) of the water of upper layer of sour curd on it up to the time till 1. SRSS., Ch. 5. 18. 2. SRSS., Ch. 5. 19. 3. SRSS., Ch, 5. 20. 4. SRSS., Ch. 5. 24. 5. SRSS., Ch. 5. 25.
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