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Rub cinpabar 1 and suro (Khār) with the juice of lemon and give it 21 putas. (roastipgs) and fire for 4 ghadis (4x24 minutes=96 minuts). There becomes gold.
Quench the leaf of brass in the oil of Butea frondosa or dry, it up by smearing it with the oil of Butea frondosa. There becomes gold.
.: Rub all these five Helioleris isora (Muradārasimga) māsā 5, cinnabar mā 5, yellow sqmala mā.5, mercury mā. 5 and borax ma 5. for 1 prahara. Next cover the whole thing for 8 days; do thus by rubbing the things every day. Next bring a leaf (dadavo), of black Bhodala (abhraka= mica) and make a good crucible by boring a hole into it. Make smearing on these two crucibles with good chalk. Next fill medicines into them). Next give cūyā (drops) of the juice of lemon and shoe flower =Hibiscus rosa=Sinnusis Javā (Jāsula) into them by drops for 4 praharas. Apply 1: srs. of it in this case; mix 1 rati of the essence into 1 tola of copper and heat them into an open crucible. There becomes gold. 3 .
Make a lump of copper mā 1. and zinc mā. 1 (together). Pour the mixture into the milk of Fuphorbia nivuiia seven times. Next pour it into the juice of Aloe vera and turmeric seven times; next grind borax țā 1 and Thütho (a kind of poison) ta. 1 and give half of it under and half of it over (that mixture); heat it on the fire of dry wild cowdung cakes, put it into a small earthen sarāvala. There becomes gold. 4.
Purify (copper) leaf pai. 1 bhār with the essence of mineral calamine pai 1, borax pai; 3. mercury pai. 1 Wedalia Calendulacea pai. 1, golden turmerio pai:. 1and oil of Anacardium pai. 11 by finely grinding all them separately.
Next rub mercury in the oil of Anacardium; when they become one, (i.e. mixed) then put mineral calamipe. Next put borax, next mix all, and grind in a Mohaka (Datura ?). Next give 1 tablet (of the combination) under (and 1 tablet over the leaf); thus put them layer. by layer. Then heat it in a close crucible upto 6 ghadis (6x24=96 minutes). There becomes gold.
1. Ibid., Ch. 11. 40. 2. SRSS., Ch. 11. 41. 3. SRSS., Ch. 11.2. 2. 4. SRSS., Ch. 11. II. 3. 5. SRSS., Ch. 11. II. 4.
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