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like that (method). The medicine becomes worthy by fifty putas (roastings) and then it is taken (accepted) within a pala (moment). The smearing of this medicine cures all diseases just as the great strong air (wind) removes a piece of cloud within a pala."
The process of making medicinal pill (guţika badhavani vidhi)
Bring the fruits of Neem tree (Liboli) i srs and take out its juice. The inner part (inside) of it is green. After that, crush the fresh seed of black Datura and take out its juice. Rub mercury 1; tolas with that juice for 3 praharas, that is, there becomes the pill and it gets. bound. Next put the pill into a Sarāb (earthen lid) and close it with the second Sarab and put 7 layers of cloth and clay over it. Burn it in the fire of 50 dry wild cowdung cakes. On its getting cooked down, take it. There it bec dry. Goţikāvidhi (It is the process of making pill).
The processing of Calomel perchloride of mercury
Cook mercury 1 sr., green vitriol 1 sr. and Saimdhava (Sea Sakt) I sr. There becomes Rasa karpūra (Calomel) by this processs.3
Make a cup of zinc. Next take milk of Calotropis gigantea, put salt into it. it gets burnt. Then put the cup upside down into an earthen vessel. Next make (lit) fire it. then grind it and give it tuyā up to 3 months. Then give it sūryapuța (roaeting by the sunrays) for a month. That cup becomes powdered if not, give pața (roasting) to it again like that as done before. Close pāde (not clear) pour the juice of Achyranthus (agthāda) tā. 9 into a fresh earthen vessel, put copper 3 tolas into it, put somala (oxide of arsenic) 1 māsā (into it), stir up the whole thing, cover it up, give it gentle fire (mandāgni), take it out on its gelling cold. If it is bound by pouring it into a piece of cloth, the pill becomes marvellous. 4
The juice of Rāvāloliyā (a kind of plant) is very strong. Take 6 srs. of its juice and stir it up with the branch of calotropes gigantea. It is of 2 panktis (Pakas=cookings), give it fire of calotropis gigantea and stir it up in the juice of Wedelia calendulaca (Bhāngrā). It gets reduced to ashes. 5
1. Ibid., Ch. 14. 2. 65 2. SRSS., Ch. 4. 5 3. SRSS., Ch. 9. 43 4. SRSS., Ch. 9. 48 5. SRSS., Ch. 9. 49
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