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Make clarified butter by heating the fat of she-goat 1, srs. give tuyā (drops) to the fine powder (of the above mentioned things) with clarified butter in an earthen pot. Make dipāgni in fire, dry up all clarified butter, dry it up in 10 or 20 days. Mix tin 10. 1 with one rati of the essence. Use the fat of sheep in case of alternative, silver ?
Take the juice of Asarvata? * 1 sr. and the juice of Hadasakala (Cissus quadrangularis)-13, give tuyā (drops) of mercury to silver. Give tuya of two juices to it in an iron cup, make mandāgni, put, māsā of the essence into 1 tola of tin. There becomes silver.?
Take a piece of phata kiu Malla (a kind of oxide of arsenic) ţă. 6, put it into the hole of Amorphophallus campanulatus by making it into this thing (sūran), (give) a lid into its mouth by putting the juice of Abrus precatorius (ciņoțhi) into it (hole). By covering it and filling sand into an earthen bowl, put the Amorphophallus inside it (bowl) and place it on the furnace, give it fire, till the juice inside Amorphophallus gets dried up. Thus next close it into Indian squvill=urginoea, Indica (Kolikanda) and wrap it up with cowdung and heat it. Next put it into lemon warp it up with cowdung and put it into Bhara.* Thus do it seven times, take out the lemon, melt copper to. 10, put powder gadiāno. Next give it 7 puțas of Bābi.y There becomes silver.3
Rub mercury tā. 4 and sulphur tā. 4 in the juice of ctenolepis cerasiformis (Saṁkhāholi) for 1 day. Rub or grind them in the juice of Horse purslace (Sātodi) for 1 day and grind them in the juice of Aloe vera for 1 day in a mortar in good manner. Next put the whole thing into a glass kettle (or casket) and give (put) a layer of clay over the bottle and get it dried up in the shade, again smear it. Dig a little deep pit, put half of goat's dung under it and half over it, place acover over it. Burn it with fire for 3 days. When it becomes red, take out the essence. Next melt copper. tā. 3, put the essence vāla 2 into it, There becomes silver.
in an open crucible
It becomes
Melt that which is not produced silver (9) of 12 carats. True.s
1x. a kind of fruit ?
y. Not identified.
1. SRSS. Ch. 12. 23. 2. SRSS., Ch. 12. 25. X. It may be a pot. 3. SRSS., Ch. 12. 26 4. SRSS., Ch. 12. 28 5. SRSS., Ch. 12. 29
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