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the urine of ass. grind these 7 mediciness- Khahipo pai i, alpa-pai 8 alum pai 7, andcardium 7, thuthu (green vitriolan emetic) 7. Kacalavana (a kind of salt) 7, salt 7, sal-ammoniac 7, and sea-salt 7, and make them powdered (pounded). Next make 7 leaves of alpa, take an earthen vessel or pot, give (put) 7 layers of cloth and clay over it. Next put one layer of usada (medicine) put leaves over it. Again give usada (medicine) again leaves layer by layer. Close it and give 7 layers, of cloth and clay over it. Make fire two times; on its getting cold, take it out. Next melt alpa-māsā 4 and 'sutu-māsā 4.
On its getting cold, take it out. Next melt alpa māsā 4 and sūtu (silver) māsā 4.3
Put the leaf of iron into the juice of pomegranate (Dāļim), having white flower for a day, it gets reduced to ashes, it becomes white. If 1 rati of it is mixed into copper and kathir (a kind of tin) there becomes silver.4
Grind (or rub) silver varga to-1 and mercury to.1 in the milk of calotropis gigantea, make a ball (or pill) of the their paste. Put it into the bulb of onion, close it up, wrap thread around it, wrap a small piece of cloth over it, wrap the bread of powder of wheat over it, make a ball (round). Next make powder of Rāna Upala (not idenified) 2, srs.. put the ball into that. On its getting cold, take out the ball aside. Again make (repeat) the previous process, put it into the bulb of onion, take 33 srs. of dry wild cowdung cakes. increase it by 4 sr. upto 5 srs., not after that The give 21 putas to it, if it is mixed into 20 tola of tin, there becomes silver.'
Make a hole into an Amorphophallus companulatus (Sūrana) and a cup or piece (pālo) of centipeda orbicularis, (Chikani), put tin (Kalahi) pai 1 bhār and centipeda orbicularis (Chikani) paisa 2 bhār, give powder under and over the leaf of tin, give over it particularly, give (put) wax and cloth over it, and give it gajapuțāgni, there becomes silver.
1. Not yet identified 2. Ibid. 3. SRSS., Ch. 10. 6. 4. SRSS, Ch. 10. 38.
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