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Give 3 putas of Datura to mineral calamine tā. 4, 3. puțas of Kāmoti (a kind of vanaspati), 3 putas of Achyranthus aspera (aghādā) and 3 puțas of turmeric to it. Make a copper leaf tā, 4, grind the medicine in the oil of Anacardium tā. 4 and smear the leaf with that; give it fire in a closed crucible for 6 ghadis (6x24=144 minutes) by melting it. There becomes gold.
Cook cinnabar tā. 1 in the clarified butter to. 21, curd to. 21, honey to. 21 and sulphur to. 21-thus in 84 tolas of these things. True. There silver (becomes), gold.?
Cook together sulphur pai. 1, sal-ammoniac pai, 1 and honey pai. 1; mix 1 rati of the essence with silver to 1.3 (Gold ?)
Rub an egg of a hen in the rasa=(mineral) of sulphur pai 1 and sal-ammoniac pai: 1. Fill the whole thing into the case of the egg, give it fire (dipăgni)-dipa Jyoti or cook it in the oil of linseed in a Dolikāyantra. Mix the essence 1 rati with silver to. 1,+ (gold ?) .
Grind sa mgharaph (cinnabar) mā. 6, seed of Terminalia chebula (Haritaki), mineral calamine, seed of croton tig-mā 6, borax mā-6, copper ma. 6 separately and combine them together; put of the whole thing under, j of it over, the leaf of copper in between, (then) heat it in a closed crucible for 6 ghadis (6x24=minutes). There becomes gold."
Make a lump of mercury and zinc, and rub them in the juice of white oleander (Nerium odorum) for one prahara. Close the copper (plate) by smearing it with the essence. (Gold® ?),
Rub mercury, lead, cinnabar and sulphur in equal proportion in the juice of Aloe vera and heat the essence in a copper samputa (Saräva=lid) on fire of coal. There becomes gold.
Rub mercury and lumb of zinc in the juice of lephantopsus: (gobbi) (scaber), close sulpbur 1, realgar 1, cinnabar 1, green vitriol, red orchre 1 in a copper sampuța (sarāva): Give it fire of coal, (gold).S.
1. SR$s.. Ch. 11. 25. 22. SRSS, Ch. 11. 30. 3. "SRSS., Ch. 11. 34. 4. Ibid., Ch. 11. 35. 5. SRSS., Ch. 11, 36. 6 Ibid,, Ch. 11. 37. 7. SRSS., Ch. 11. 38. 8. Ibid., Ch. 11. 39.
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