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jat' and 'give fire' for '8 praharas under it. On its getting cooled down, mit 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. There becomes gold:
First put zinc in tamarind-salt and press ard wash it seven times, and purify it. Next make a cup of pai. 5 (out of zinc). Put mercury tā, twinto that thorn-piercing cup. Then fill up the juice of yellow Dodonae a Viscosa (Bandāli) up to its brim and place a lid over it; give dipāgni under, it (cup); go on giving 2 srs. of juice of yellow Bandāli. Keep the juice up to the brim. After its cooking, when the brim bursts out, then go on mixing the pieces into the cup. When all burst out, then .combine all the pieces together. Make earthen lids, seal them up, seal them into a. sarāvasampura and give it fire of dry cow-dung cakes for 1
wa. Next on its getting cooled down, take it out. Mix that powdervalallinto 1. tola of copper. There becomes gold
True according to tradition.
Make a, cụp of silver-1 tola, put 1 tola of mercury into it. Fill up sand into an earthen vessel, put the cup into it, place it (Vessel) on the furnace and give fire for 5 praharas under it. Give drops (tüya) of calotropis gigantea over the cup drop by drop till the cúp and mercury become one, Next mix the essence vāla 1 or' māsā '1 into one tola of copper.s (There becomes gold).
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Make tat lump) of 1- 'sr. and rub it in the juice of Buba, (a kind of plant) 21 times, next rub it in the juice of Butea Frondosa (Kaşurad 21, timeşi The essence is accomplished. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into thļa op. copper. There becomes gold.
Make, lime, of, oyster shell, mix a little mineral calamine as said before, give 30 gajapuța (fires) to the combination. Mix the essence-māsā 1 into copper tola 1, (There become gold.).
Make a feat of brass to. 5, combine together the juice of Butea Fiondósa and "that of citrus lemon and rub hamsapāka cinnabar ţă. 3, sal-ammoniac, tā. I and mercury (tai 13 by combining mercury together. Smear the leaf lof' brass). Make a hole into a wood
1. SRSS., Ch. 5. 40. 2. SRSS., Ch. 6. 1.. 3. SRSS., Ch. 6. 4. 4. SRSS., Ch. 6. 9. ', 5. Ibid., Ch. 6. 10.
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