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Rub oxide of arsenic and mercury each in equal portion with the pulp of seed of castor (Ricinus) for 1 prahara. Give the tablet of I māsā of the essence into copper-1 tola, combine of silver into it; good silver. 1
Take oxide of arsenic 1 sr, combine together curd-water-2 srs. and the juice of citrus lemon sr., go on pouring the juice little by little on oxide of arsenic into a pot with an iron spoon and give fire under it; cook it by bhātāgni (fire, quantum for cooking rice). Thus give it puța for 42 days in 2 srs. of curd-water and sp of citrus lea on on the fourth day or in the fourth puța (roasting) rub it (oxide of arsenic) alone one day for 1 or 2 praharas. That is, oxide of arsenic is accomplished. Stir it up with the spoon of sisam wood. Put the gloves on hands, do not take smok in the eyes. Next it is produced. Then put 2 māsās of the essence into 1 tola of the copper. Make pills of silver māsā. Melt copper and put one pill (of silver), next again there will be silver. Next by putting it into a a bottle, hang it on. If there becomes thuthadi (?). (there will be) silver. True.
Bring sal-ammoniac, take an earthen pot of the shape of a water-jar : first spread out lime (Kalicūno=lime of snail shell) in the form of a circle, spread out sal-ammoniac over that (lime). Make a border (Pālisi). Give lime over that, give fire under the earthen pot. When sal-ammoniac gently gets bubbled, put lime into it. When the bubbling stops, then it gets cooled down, take it out, rub the whole thing and put it into phūkanā (not identified) and close its mouth. Keep it into hot wates. Make fire below the pot. Take it out by keeping it for 1 or 2 ghadis. Put lime (Kalicūno) in one pot. Put the water of sal-ammoniac (into it) from phūkanā, which is there, into lime; give a seal into the mouth of the pot; put it into the furnace of a potter. Take it out after its getting cooked. On taking out the whole thing from the pot, crush it. Put it again into Phūkanā (blowing apparatus), bind (seal up) its mouth hard, pour cold water into the jar, put phukaņā into that.
If it is kept for 2 or 3 ghaạis, there will become water of salammoniac; pour it into a plate of china clay (Chinese plate) from that phūkanā; keep it in the shade for 1 or 2 days. It will become pāpa (parpați); keep that pāpadi in one place. There becomes the essence. Melt zinc and put sal-ammoniac into it little by little. At the time of filtering, put again sal-ammoniac vāla 1 into zinc. There will be silver. 3
1. Ibid., Ch. 3. 68. 2. SRSS., Ch. 3. 69. 3. SRSS., Ch. 3. 70.
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