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Tako rasa (mercury ?) by making it wet with the lemon, with two rasas (juice) of Nāgachikani (centipeda orbicularis), grind it into them and give it fire little by little; gotaka (pill) gets bound.
By taking out the juice of centipeda orbicularis, rab mercury, alum, oxide of arsenic (malla) cionabar in equal quantity and cast the whole thing into a crucible.
Put first mercury, next leaf, next cinnabar, next alum and next put the juice of Centipeda orbicularis. At first black smoke will come out (due to their chemical action). Next at the second time when rasa mercury) is mixed up, then blue smoke comes out.
At the third time, on mixing tasa (mercury ?) white smoke comes omt. Next take out the whole thing pill is produced. next melt it by muting tla (trapu), next, it is very hard, give borax into it for the second time and melt it, ball sucks water on turning up. Having pas charcoal by the side of crucible, make phūkavūja (not identified); grind the essence, mix it up. There becomes (gold) ?) No doubt were."
Grimer sulphur ţa. 5, sal-ammoniac tā. 5. and honey tā 10 with the arind of a child for seven days in an earther pot with the but (piston of wood of safratut ka kind of Vanaspatt). Next put silver into the essence by melting it. There becomes gold."
Combine sulphur sr. and green vitriol tā. 10; give 108 putas of Aloe vera to their essence on fire, next mix 1 tota of copper and I rati of the estende.3 (Gold ?)
Grind sulphur tā. 3, orpiment tā. 3, cinnabar tā. 3, Vermillion tā. 3, mercury tā. 3, golden pyrite ţă. 6, Dāļimasāra (Essence of punica pa r 1, zime ta. 3, borax ţă. 3 and glass ta. 9.
Spread out glass powder under and put the powder of medicines ones, put the leaf of zinc over it. Again put medicine, again cover
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u ss (powder), cover it up with seal, give it fire for 11 praharas. There becomes gold.4 Cook Rāla (resin a kind of wax) and borax in the juice of lemon for 2 praharas; put the essence into copper, cook rāla alone and give water, it becomes gold.5
2. SRSS., Ch. 11.13. 4. SRSS., Ch. 11. 24.
1. SRSS. Ch. 11.11. 3. SRSS., Ch. 11. 22.
5. SRSS., Ch. 11. 24. Jain Education International
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