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Rub cinnabar 1, Haramaḍs 1 (Peganum Haramala ?) and Arkakoila (C lotropis) gigantea ?) 1 in. white brinjal and get the whole thing dried up in the shade. Put a layer of cloth and clay over it and give it fire for 12 praharas. Mix the essence väla 14 into copper ga.1', (gold).
Rub in sr. and mercury ta 6 (rum) kam (not identified) with juice of Euphorbia Pilulifera and the juice of lemon in equal portions. Smear the essence on the copper leaf 21 (times) and dry it up in the shade and give it i6 putas in the sun. Next melt it, gold' (i.e. there becomes gold).
Grind vatalapanni suvanaphuli, phali, so (Bergenia liqulata) having golden flower and fruit, with root and branch. Its juice is produced from ouly one. One elephant remains at the door, that is, gold is produced by some chemical process.
Rub all these-mereury pała 5, sulphur-pala 10, Kaganela pala 25, put the whole thing into an old pot and close it up. Place it inside a furnace for 6 months. Do like that so that the heat of fire affects it. Give (apply to) silver de . (There may be gold ?)*
Cook tridhari Haḍasamkalı (Cissus triangularis) on fire for 21 days, next grind Kaneriu realgar and smear the leaf of zinc with it, give it layer by layer on the leaf. Put it into an earthen bowl and close it up, put 7 `layers of cloth and (clay) over it, put it in a valukayantra. Close it up, make mandagni (slow fire) for 8 praharas. Mix 1 masa of the essence into 1 tola of silver. There becomes gold of 8 carats.
Take phatakiu malla (a kind of oxide of arsenic) ga. 1, meretry ga. 2, thutho (a kind of poison) ga. 2, lime of conck shell (samkhi cum gr. 2 and 2 cups of tin masuring ta. 66. By making powder of the medicines, put it into one cup, next close its mouth by putting the second cup over it. Next rub green Vitrio in the milk of Vajr. (Euphorbia antiquorum), Smear it on the cup, next (put) 3 layers of cloth and clay over it. Next A the jar with sand, put the cup inside it fill sand over it measuring 2 fingers. Next seal up the mouth of the jar with a lid. Close it with day
1. SRSS., Ch. 12. 11.
2. SRSS., Ch. 12. 18 3. SRSS., Ch. 12. 19 4. SRSS., Ch. 12. 20 5. SRSS., Ch, 12. 26
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