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Mix mercury pai 2; and oxide of arsenic tā. 1. Next put the whole thing into an iron pan and go on putting little by little the juice of Aloe vera with a spoon by taking out 5 srs. of it. Next take cow's urine 5 srs; put it little by little into that; when it gets burnt up (heated) wash it (the mixture) with water, then make a cup of gajavela iron; grind alum tā. 1 and orpiment tā. 1 into it; spread them over and under and put a layer of cloth and clay (over the Cup), heat it in fire of dry wild cowdung 'cakes for 4 ghadis, Mix 1 rati of essence into 1 tola of tin, it becomes silver.
Rub oxide of arsenic tola 1-and grains (or dust) of silver tola 1 in the juice or elephantopsus scaber (gojihvā) for 4 praharas. Next put the whole thing into a Dābadi (a pot) and put a layer of cloth and clay over it. Give it fire of wild cowdung cakes in a pit measuring 1 cubic yard (gajaputa). On its getting cooled down, take it out. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. Next pour it into cowdung, then crush salammoniac and salt (luņa) together. O Desirer of silver, smear the essence on the copper-leaf and heat it in fire. Next pour it into āmalasāra sulphur, even if there comes up blackness, make it hot and quench it with the juice of cirapotikā (a kind of plant.)
That goes to be thus : 1 tola of it becomes new and pure true. Golakai (Combination) is produced by the grace of god.
Make one bread of the fruit of Tamarind, make another bread of carthanus tinctorius (Kusambha), next make pieces of oxide of arsenic and alum like that of rice; get them parched in the 1st bread and put the second bread over it, close the border of the breads. Cook it in an earthen pan. The roțalı (small bread) is produced with that. Put together copper tā. 5, best brass to 5 and silver tā 5, this essence-oxide of arsenic ta 5. There becomes silver.3
Melt-zinc 21 times in all these juices-urine of horse, urine of man, urine of ass, milk of calotropis gigantea, milk of Milk's Hedge, juice of Datura, juice of citrus lemon, and juice of Sabuni tejinayi (a kind of plant) and pour tt. Next whatever juice remains, melt that in a crucible. Put sal-ammoniac from above by filling with cāpuu (pot or finger), put it while melting sal-ammoniac, borax and salt (Khāra), Kahri-that is.
1. SRSS., Ch. 3. 71. 2. SRSS., Ch. 3. 74. 3. SRSS., Ch. 3. 102.
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