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of paper. Next bring į maund cūnokali (Time), give half of it under and half of it over that thing, put sulphur in between them, put a cover lid) over it and put a layer of cloth and clay over it. Next place it into the furnace (Nibha) of a potter. When the furnace becomes cool, take it out. Take out 2 handfuls of lime. There becomes bright sulphur; when the paper gets burnt, take that. Then combine that sulphur, and sulphur of the market tā. 1 and mereury tā. 3 by crushing them.
· Make cake by crushing them in a mortar. Mix 4 ratis of Pithi (cake or paste) into 1 tola of silver. There becomes 11 carat-gold.
Melt it by mixing the powder (dust) of copper' just equal to silver. There becomes 10 carat gold.?
Give 24 saturations of waler of sal-ammoniac (to gold). Next put it into a glass casket, then pour X kadapāni (grass-water ?) into an earthen vessel, put the casket into the body of dhakhoy, lit fire under it, heat it till there becomes water, then take it. Make the water of mercury double than all things of the casket. Then combine both the waters. That is, Rasa, (essence) is accomplished. Melt 1 tola of the Nepalese copper and mix with it 1 rati of the produced rasa. There becomes 14 carat-gold.3. 3
Liquety lead 1 st. and give drops (Cuyā) of Alata." It is to be stirred up with a wooden piece of Butea frondosa. When the whole thing gets reduced to ash, take it out. Next melt silver ma. 2 and the essence ma. 2 together. There becomes gold.
Combine purified mercury ga, 10 and put them into an earthen vessel, place it on a furnace, give 14 cūyās (droppings) 'of 1x Hamasapalı" to the mixture, stir it up with the wooden piece of Butea frondosa or Ailanthus excelsa Roxb (Aradusā). Smear the essence on the leaf of copper bha. 12 and silver vāa 8 and melt them, There becomes gold.8
1. SRSS., Ch. . 7.25. 2. Ibid. 2x not clearly explained in the absence of, commentary, 2y not identified.. 3. SRSS., Ch. 7.26. X not identified, 3x Not identified. 4. SRSS., Ch. 8.1. 5. SRSS. Ch. 8.3
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