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(kernel) of it and close it; cook it in the fire of 4 or 5 pieces of cow-dung cakes. Thus cook the same in new and new citrus colocynthus 108 times. Mix mast of the essence with one tola of copper. There becoms gold.
Giye 64 putas (roasting) to cinnabar sr. with the juice of Sakandara (Sohagali) sr. It. is a great piercer; crush Sakandara which is Soragali and mix it with cinnabar, get it dried up; give 64 putas to it in this way; crush the copper-piercing cinnabar t 5 and cissus quadranqularis (Hadasakala) and put the mixture into an earthen vessel. Put pieces of cinnabar into it. Cover ta. -5, cissus quadrangularis (Haḍasakala) with the second crucible and wrap it up with a piece of cloth; give, (put) it 2 or 3 layer of clay (cloth) over it. Make powder and lump of pieces of dry cowdung cakes by breaking it up; make the powder of dry pieces of cowdung cake equal and give over it. Next make fire. On its getting cooled down, again make 2 earthen vessels of the second Haḍasakala. As explained before, give fire of 2 pieces of cowdung cakes, if small, give 21 pieces, not more. By this way give 12 putas, give 125 putas, then the essence is accomplished. Mix copper ta. 3 and 1 rati of the essence. Meet silver ta 1 and put 1 rati of the essence into it. There becomes. gold.1
Cut black Bhodala (raw mica) like silver (coin), crush it and make silver. Next spread out 1 masă of silver on 1 tola (of mica leaf), give (place) them layer by layer the leaf of mica, over it. (Put) surokhara (a kind of salt), over the leaf, again surekhara, over it the leaf, again surokhara, again the leaf. Put them in a paper vessel on a light lid (sarava) and sprinkle water; give heat to them a little with four cakes of dry cowdung. There becomes gold."
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Sulphur becomes white by grinding. Melt it and heat (it), grind it in silver, put the medicine. There becomes gold of 11 carats.3
Make the essence of sulphur ga. 1, realgar ga. 1 and mercuyr ga. 1. Make a leaf of lead and smear it with the essence; give it 3 putas (raostings) to the leaf of lead. That lead gets killed and (gets) converted into Silver ga. 4 & gold.*
Make pieces of copper ga. 32, and sulphur ga. 1, just like the size of zyzyphus jujube (bora) give them 7 putas by wrapping them with a piece
1. SRSS., Ch. 6.26.
2. SRSS., Ch., 6.28.
3. SRSS., Ch. 6.40. 4. SRSS., Ch. 7.11.
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