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Reduce to paste mercury tā, 9 in sr. of the juice of Sarapamkha (purple tiphrosia) in a mortar. Next take it out by washing. Then put a big tablet (Thepali) of mercury into an earthen crucible and close 'it; give it geritle fire of 5 pieces of cowdung under and 5 pieces of it over it for 1 ghadi. Take it out on its getting cooled down. Mix rati of the essence into 1 tola of tin. Silver. True. 1
Reduce to paste mercury in the juice of the root of Kasumdi (Negro coffee plant) for 4 days. Next keep it in an earthen vessel for 4 days. Then put the powder of leaves of zinc into it, give 13 māsās of powder (of zinc) into 1 tola of mercury. Put 1 māsā of silver into that mercury after the powder gets melted. There become silver.?
Take a wooden piece of green Butea frondosa Roxb, 1 cubit in length, 8 fingers in breadth. Make a cup of that, put into it kaviu sindūr (vermilion) pai 5 bhār, by making small pieces, and the juice of ripe citrus lemon.
Next put these three together into the cup and give a lid over its mouth.
Put a layer of cloth and clay over the cup. Dig a pit and put that wooden piece into the ground; give it fire of wood of Spong tree (Khijadā) and zyzyphus jujube for 11 praharas. There will be silver.3
Take milk of a she-camel giving the first birth before the time her calf has not sucked her milk. Next put a piece of Kathir (a kind of tin) just equal to the quantity of milk into that milk. When it gets dried up, take out kathir (tin). There becomes silver.
Make the grains (sands) of zinc, put them into the bread of powder of Temāla (not identified) and feed a he-goat for a day. Keep the he-goat hungry on the first day. Then on the second day feed it on bread. Take its dung, give puța to it into the juice of Gobhi (a Elephantopsus scaber) by dipping it for a day. Next put it into a fresh earthen vessel and place a lid into its mouth; make a hole on the lid and close it with chay,
1. SRSS., Ch. 3. 43. 2. SRSS., Ch. 3. 44. 3. SRSS,, Ch. 3. 45. 4. Ibid., Ch. 3. 46.
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