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(gum of cochlosprum gossypium), put it into the milk of she goat and cook it. Next melt tin and put that mercury into it. There becomes silver.
Take out oil from realgar 1, orpimemt 1, sulphur 1, minearal calmine, borax 1, white mica 1, anacadium-māsā 1 (by heating them in a pātālayantra. Mix copper into that oil and melt it in equal proportion of copper combined with half-seed (essence) (arddhabija together with yukta) calamine in an earthen vessel, oi of anacardium bhā. 7, milk of calotropis bhā. 7. Echinops Echinata (jvātāmukhi=teutakatro) bha. 7.
Next combine these two-silver ga. 2 and copper ga. 10, melt and heat them. Crush Maugya barley and make bread (out of it). Thrust pieces of orpiment into it, put that bread into an earthen vessel, heat it in a closed crucible and put a lid over its mouth. Make gentle fire, burn (heat) it till there becomes silver.
Next make a leaf of tin (Kathir), give orpiment under and over it; heat it. Then put rasa (mercury ?), next give it 21 saturations of calotropis gigantea. Mix ga. 1 of silver with 1 tola of copper. Mix half silver. It becomes Narahadi (Silver ?) 3
Give 7 saturations to mineral calamine tā. 1, mercury tā. 1 orpiment tā. 1, realgar (tā)-1 alum (tā) 1, white glass (Svetakaca) (tā) 1. Sea-salt (Saimdhava) (tā) 1 natron (tā) 1 & borax (tā) 1, with the milk of Calotropis gigantea. Next smear the leaf of copper (with the essence), heat it three times in a covered crucible, pour it into the urine of ass, butter- milk and cowdung. It becomes silver. * '
Make pieces of human hair ; sr., measuring 2 fingers by cutting and cutting it. Next put 1 seer of lime and 1 seer of natron together into 2 seers of tiger's urine and boil them. When there remain 5 seers of urine, take out the good essence. Then put hair into that urine and hold it on fire till all pieces of hair get melted. Next pound 1 seer of realgar, 1 seer of orpiment and 1 seer of mica and make cake of them. Rub these things with the urine in a mortar; when all urine gets mixed up (absorbed), take out the thing and get it dried up. Next make pidi (cake) by rubbing tili (seed of sesamum ?). Put it into a casket and give it a layer of cloth and clay over it (Sadhara 1). Then place it on the furnace, put much clay to the left and right side of it. Give it fire of khichdi (coal, wood, etc.) Take it out on its getting cooled down. Hair and essence get separated. Mix the essence ga. 1 into copper gadiyānā 16. There becomes silver.8
1. SRSS. Ch. 7.22 2, SRSS., Ch. 7. 23 3. SRSS., Ch. 7. 23 4. SRSS., Ch. 8. 2. 5. SRSS., Ch. 8. 4.
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