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The names of those medicines are noted below. Mastakı (pistacia lentiscus) to. 1, cinnabar to 1, borax to. 1, alum to 1, tākho (black iron) to. 1, sulphur to. 1, samkhin somala (a kind of oxide of arsenic), Bodāra (an essenee or oxide of lead) (singi), Silājuta (bitumen), godantı Haratala (a kind of orpiment) 1, Navasāra hunie, (Sal-ammoniac) 1; rub all these eleven medicines such as Mastaki, etc., in the juice of Aloe vera; grind each medicine in the juice of Aloe vera and combine them together.
Make prādāmo samputa (a kind of lid), make 11 pills of medicine in combination with Dhalo sr. and Upalyoy tā. 9, put them into the Samputa (lid), close it by putting a lid over it and covering it with a layer of cloth and clay over it. Close its joint with grains of clay. Put 7 layers cloth and clay over it, put it (Samputa) into an earthen bowl. Crush 1 srs. of salt and spread it out under; put sampuța over it and give (put) a cover of clay over it. Alow the lid (to) be seated into the mouth of the vessel. Seal it up well so that smoke won't be able to come out, make fire (heat it, in fire) for 8 praharas, Take the wood of Rāyana (Mimusops hekandra) make dipagni On its getting cooled down take it out. Next open the samputa, put the nails (hoofs) of horse māsā 1. into it. There will be silver.'
Make a thick bread of zinc, give it pata of lime, give it fire for 4 days. Next chew betel leaf and throw the spittle (pik) into it. Next burn it in the fire of dry wild cowdung cakes. Thus there becomes sūto (rūbo ?) (Silver ?)
Fill the root of sastor, the root of Vadavāgni and the root of Datura with salt into 2 earthen jars (Kundas) of equal size, they are strength and energy giving, when reduced to ashes, they are equal to the full moon in lustre.
Take the excreta of pigeon, gunja (Abrus precatorius, mercury and borax natron, calotropis gigantea in tripuța (3 ouțas). If the essence made of them is applied on copper it, becomes white like moon.
X not identified y Not identified, 1. SRSS., Ch. 9. 41 2. SRSS., Ch. 9. 47. 3. SRSS., Ch. 9.49. (1) 4. Ibid., Ch. 9. 49. (2)
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