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Rub mercury in the juice of Ipomaea, reniformis and the juice of Aloe Vera and quench it into Kākası (Sisyambrium irio). There becomes silver.
Put orpiment pai. 6 into a glass cup, next fill up a big pan with the juice of Kāsudi Negro coffee=Round Podea cassia=cassia Sophere or cassia occidentalis), keep it for 3 days, and dry it up. Do thus 3 times, Next put the juice of Kolikanda (Indian squvill). It gets dried up in one day. Do it thus for 3 days,
Next filter Bassia latifolia (Talio moharo) paisa 4 bhār with a piece of cloth, put it into orpiment and rub it with the juice of cassia occidentlis and fill it into a bottle. Put hair into the mouth of the bottle.
Next place (hold) the glass pot (cup) under that tube. Next give it fire of, pieces of goat's dung-7 srs. in an earthen bowl and give it fire with goat dung. Take the essence from that which comes out. The essence that remains in it becomes white. Break the bottle and take out the essence. That essence makes copper white. Oil comes out. That makes silver bright.
Rub Somala (Khāra=oxide of arsenic) 1, mercury 1, borax 1 and tin in the milk of Vajri (Euphorbia antiquorum,) cook them in human urine in a Dolikāyantra, mix that essence-3 māsas into purified copper to. 1, There becomes silver Joțakam (pieces).
Make a hole into a gourd, rub somala (oxide of arsenic) tola-3 put it into that gourd and give (put) a cover into the hole, put 7 layers of cloth and clay over it, give it, gajapuţāgni (fire) of 5 maunds of dry wild cowdung cakes. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. Clean silver comes out. Its name is Saṁtagutikā.?
Rub mercury to. 1 in the juice of Tādi Dudheli (Euphirbia pilulifera) for 1 day, rub orpiment in the juice of Tiduri (a kind of plant) for 1 day, make pills of them and put them in the water of lime and cook them in Dholikāyantra for 3 praharas. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper, combine 4 māsās of bija (essence ?) Keep 5 (it) inside the house 5 for 1 month. There becomes pure silver.3
4. SRSS. Ch. 11. 2. 12. 5. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2. 18. 6. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2. 18. 1. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2. 27 2. SRSS, Ch. 11. 2. 31. 3. SRSS., Ch. 11. 2. 32.
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