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1 Rub somala (oxide of arsenic) in the juice of Horse radish. Rub these two together the inner bark of Horse radish tree and cow's milk powi. S bhār, and take out the juice, rub Somala, next make a pill to it, put it into an earthen crucible, give it gajapuțāgni of goat's dung 5 srs. Every day give it fire for 21 days. This process dries up the water of morcury and tin, mix paisā 2 bhār (of copper) and 2 ratis of the essence. (Gold ?)*
Keep orpiment 8 srs. and red Abrus precatorius sr. dipped in the milk of she-goat and take out oil in patalayantra. Next put mercury 1 into a zinc-cup of 2 srs., make that cup drink (l.c. dip) into the juice of lamprachoenium micro cephalum (Brahmadaņņi)-2 srs. Fill oil into it, put lead (Nada (ga) in between Sambhara luņa (salt) 3 srs. by crushing it, put the cup over it, fill the oup with that oil, place the earthen bowl over that cup. Fill 15 srs. pf Sambharaluna over that, give fire under it for 12 praharas, give (mix) 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola copper. Gold?).
Put the juice of Bugo (a kind of plant) 1 sr. and mercury 1 sr. into an iron pot, give it fire for 5 praharas, give cüyā (drops) to the whole thing, Stir up the root of Būge. If 11to(las) of tin are mixed into lead, there becomes gold.”
Put mercury pai 1 and zinc pai į into a copper Sampuța and fill it up with the juice of Ipomaea reniformis and close the Samppța and give it fire.8 (Gold ?)
Rub orpiment pai. j, mercury pai. 1 and samgharaph (cinnabar) pai. 1 in the juice of centripeda orbicularis and juice of lemon. Make a Hole in a brick and cook them into it; give cāyā of lemor juide to the whole thing. Mix 1 rati of the essence with 1 tola (of copper ?) (There becomes gold ?)
Take a thick piece of cloth of cloth measuring the length of 1 cubit 'square. Give it 6 saturations with the milk of calotropis gigantea. Apply
sr. (to) it. Thus on the seventh day there becomes blue (or greeg) cloth (nslaja vastra).
Take sr. of sulphur and these five kinds of seeds-pai. 1 bhāt of mustard seed, pai. 1 bhār of tin seed, pai. 1 bhār of Mesua ferrea x. SRSS,, Ch. II.5. 1. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2. 10. 2. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2. 11. 3. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2. 14. 4. Ibid., Ch. 11. 2. 15.
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