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Quench (mix) the juice of black ocimum gratissimum (Babari) into the juice of Aristolochia Indica (Tśvaralimgi), it will be like small pieces of bread. Next put sambharluņa (salt of Sambara lake)-1 sr. into an earthen · pot, make it like a plain platform (cotaro), put cāndakı (bread-like thing) over it.
Put it on the furnace, give sufficient juice to it up to 6 praharas. Again turn it over and give it the juice of lemon for 6 praharas, give it caya (drops), thus do it 4 times. That is, give it fire for 24 praharas. The
der will be as such that it will fill the tip of fingers, that is, it is accomplished. Mix the esse noe vāla 14 into 1 tolā of copper. (Gold)?
Grind mercury to. 1, sulphur to. 1, orpiment to. 1, golden pyrite to.. 1 and zinc sr. and make two cups (of zinc). Make this smearing on them, next make a smearing on the sampuţa lid inside and outside by grinding the salt. Put a cover of cloth and clay over it. Next fill sand into one bowl and put salt over it, put the cup over that, fill the pit with goat's dung, leave the cup over the bowl, fill goat's dung over it and give it fire for 3 days. Mix 1 māsā of the esence into 1 tola of copper,' (gold).
Rub mercury tā 4, lead to. 1, sulphur (tā) 1, and sal-ammoniac (ta) 1 in the juice of Diospyros peregrina (Timbaru) for 7 days. Put the whole thing into a bottle and give it fire. Mix 1 rati of the cssence into I tola of copper. (Gold ?).
Take the powder of gajaveli (iron) which gets attracted to magnetic stone. Take clarified butter, honey and borax in equal portions to that (gajaveli), put it into them by drenching it up to 21 days. Next put it in,
a crucible and cover it with coal and heat it till it becomes red. When it becomes red, put (pour) Dūdimiu Somala (oxide of arsenic) ta. 1 into it little by little.
On putting it 16 (times), there becomes liquid, then take it out. Next melt copper 1} bhār and mix the essence vāla 4, 13 carat (of gold ?) is produced."
Fill Sonehalirasa (a kind of plant) pai. 3 into a cocoanut shell having water by boring it; put mercury pai. 1 bhār into it and seal it up. When
1. SRSS., Ch. 13. 23. · 2. SRSS., Ch. 13. 25
3. SRSS., Ch. 13. 2. 4 4. SRSS., Ch. 13. 2. 7
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