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Rub all these fourteen-Malaphio (a kind of mineral ?) to-1, mercury tola-1, golden pyrite to. 1, bodāra (a kind of metallic poison) to. 1, realgar to. 1, rāyasumgha (not identified) tolo 1, keravo (not identified) to. 1, candrasa (Valıria Indica) to. 1. hirādakhana (colamus draco) to. 1, jamghala to. 1, thutho (a kind of poison) to. 1. gali (Indigo) to. 1 mastakı (pistacia lentiscus) tolo-1 and sal-ammoniac to. 1 in combination with the juice of beetl, fill the content into a bottle, fill it loose, give (put) a seal into its mouth after getting the juice heated by increasing and increasing fire for 8 praharas, put mercury of the 1st bottle measuring a rai (mustard seed), pour the juice of black eclipta alba into mercury. There becomes silver.
Rub these two the juice of bud of ca pa (Jasminum officinale Linn. chambā) tā. 20 and oil tă. 20 and heat the combination; put lead tā. 4 into an earthen bowl and make (lit) fire under it. Give drops (tuya) of the juice of the bud of cāpā, the essence is ready. Mix 1 rati of the seence with 1 tola of silver.'
Take Kasumdina 1 sr., (vattiserisides) Negro coffee plant=cassia occidentalis), 1 sr. big gandhayani (coleus cyperus rertenulis), leaf of Nāgori pā. 1, seed of dolichondron falcata (Mithsingi) pā. 1, put two leaves in between layer by layer; place the whole thing in a sampuța and put 3 layers of cloth and clay over it; give it gajapuțāgni for 4 praharas. Thus repeat the process two times. Silver is produced. 3
Mix orpiment with clarified butter, rub it in the ash of long pepper (Pippala) 5 sr. and Butea frondosa (Khākhara)-5 sts. Mix orpiment with Cassytha filiformis (amari), mix it into an earthen bowl (or potsherd), give ashes of those things under and over it, it becomes ash. When smoke comes out of it, then put ashes, give it fire for 2 praharas. Silver is produced. +
Fill these two-the juice of je (in) je (im)vanti (Leptadania reticulata) and the juice of piper beetle into an earthen bowl, put a tola of mercury in it.
1. SRSS., Ch. 8. 18. 2. SRSS., Ch. 8. 21. 3. SRSS., Ch. 9. 12 4. SRSS.. Ch. 9. 13.
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