Rasamanjari 2

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Rasamañjarī, 2
Now, therefore, I shall declare the supreme digestion of mercury.
Moreover, whoever kills mercury that is undigested and devoid of seed,

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he is a slayer of a brāhmaṇa, evil-natured, and an enemy to me, O Great Goddess!
Therefore, with every effort, one should calcine digested mercury.

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<Digestion of sulphur into mercury>
Having poured water into an earthen basin, upon it an earthen saucer

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having placed mercury, one should cast powder of sulphur upon it.

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The excellent physician should then make a very thin ash-seal.

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Thus repeatedly adding and adding sulphur, O goddess, the excellent physician

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<Digestion of gold into mercury>
Mercury, having been ground with salt, drumstick, tutty, along with black mustard and the three pungents for three nights,

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<Digestion into mercury>
Or else, smeared with peacock gall through the use of a vida,

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And burnt conch-shell powder inundated with the milk of Calotropis procera,

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He should digest gold, mica, and all metals as desired,

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<Calcination of mercury>
Two palas of purified mercury and half as much purified sulphur as mercury,

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having sealed it in a bhūdhara apparatus, one should calcine it for one day with incinerations.
<Calcination of mercury (2)>
Mercury thoroughly triturated with betel leaf juice,

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placed inside a crucible-casket of earth with a Momordica dioica tuber, in an elephant incineration pit,

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<Calcination of mercury (3)>
Mercury is to be triturated with the root-water of white Alangium salvifolium for three days;

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One should consume five raktikās daily with honey and ghee.

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<Preparation of rasasindūra (1)>
Here, a pala of purified mercury and the same amount of fine sulphur,

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having given three impregnations, one should deposit it inside an earthen pot.

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There is produced rasasindūra resembling the young dawn;

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<Rasasindūra (2)>
Mercury equal to sulphur, triturated with Vitex negundo juice,

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<Rasasindūra>
Purified sulphur half the amount of the mercury, and essence derived from chalcopyrite

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one should place it in a sand apparatus and cook it in a glass flask,

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Cooked, there arises an ash resembling a pomegranate flower.
<Rasasindūra>
Having taken mercury and sulphur each in equal parts,

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sal ammoniac, soot, [and] alum, having triturated for just one yāma

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Having placed a stone pill at the opening, one should smear it with a seal.

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The intelligent physician should place the flask in an earthen pot that has an opening;

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Having set it on a hearth, having kindled a fire that is mild, moderate, and intense in sequence

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Having broken the pot, he should discard the sulphur that has gone above;

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<Rasasindūra>
Sulphur, soot […], and purified mercury in equal amounts;

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Having sealed it, he should cook it for twelve yāmas in a sand apparatus.

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<Rasasindūra>
Two parts of mercury, exactly three parts of sulphur, one part of Terminalia tomentosa;

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Having wrapped it personally with mud-smeared rags, and having placed a well-powdered chalk at the opening,

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the ash of the Lord's offspring, red like the Bandhūka flower, to be used in all diseases.

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<Rasasindūra>
Mercury and sulphur, equal, placed below and above in a baked crucible,

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four times the two [ingredients] is to be added; and having sealed the crucible,

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<Rasasindūra>
Mercury is to be steamed diligently with the Withania somnifera group;

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He should cook it: rasasindūra resembling the dawn is produced,

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This alone would be sufficient to cause increase of lifespan, not anything else;

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<Rasakarpūra>
Borax, honey, lac, then wool, [and] mercury accompanied by Abrus precatorius

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blown, it attains the state of ash, purified, resembling camphor.
<Rasakarpūra>
Chalk, brick, red ochre, termite-mound earth, and rock salt in equal parts;

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sulphur is considered to be of two parts, [and] two parts of mercury.

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then having roasted it, having placed the earthen vessel, one should cook it for twice eight watches.

Wrapping it with paste and the like, one should swallow it down in cases of syphilis.
<Calomel (rasakarpūra)>
Mercury, thoroughly ground into a paste with saline earth, pure, [triturated] many times with the water of spurge, united with minerals and enveloped in chalk, should be confined in a crucible.
Placing it within salt, and kindling a forceful fire beneath it, one should then slowly collect the ash located above the ash, white as the moon and the kunda flower.

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Two vallas of this taken in the morning with clove purges upwards in humans; cold water should be drunk repeatedly for two yāmas.
This destroys poison persisting up to a year, or six months, or one month, poison originating from rocks, and that which is suddenly produced by lions and serpents.

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<Swooning of mercury>
One should triturate mercury with meghanāda, vacā, cinnabar, and garlic.
When triturated so that [its form] disappears, one should wrap that ball externally with asafoetida.

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One should cook it for one day placed in a salt apparatus with a fierce fire.
Taking what has adhered to the top, one should wrap it securely in a cloth.

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Placing an equal part of sulphur above and below, one should cook it over a gentle fire.
When the sulphur has been digested, an equal amount should be added again six times consecutively.

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When six times the amount of sulphur has been digested, it becomes swooned, destroying disease.
<Swooning of mercury>
In an iron or copper vessel, one pala of purified sulphur [is placed].

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When that is melted over a gentle fire, one should cast in three palas of purified mercury,
and then stir it slightly, again and again, with an iron ladle.

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One should pour cow dung and a banana leaf over it.
In this way, [mercury] bound with sulphur should be applied in all diseases.

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[Mercury] calcined is for bodily perfection; swooned, it is for the destruction of diseases.
Mercury ash is used in some diseases, swooned [mercury] in others for the body;
bound [mercury] one should employ for both, according to the procedure prescribed in the treatises.

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<Characteristics of bound mercury>
Indestructible, light, fusible, lustrous, spotless, heavy,
crepitating, and capable of returning [to its natural state]: such are the characteristics of bound mercury.

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<Characteristics of swooned mercury>
When mercury, having abandoned its dense mobility, is seen
resembling collyrium, it is to be known by the wise as utterly swooned.

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<Characteristics of calcined mercury>
Moistness, density, mobility, heaviness, and luster—
he in whom these are not seen, one should know as calcined mercury.

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<Seedless bound mercury>
Mercury, having digested one-fourth part of gold, formed into a paste through combination with sulphur,
and repeatedly incinerated in pits with equal parts of sulphur in due order, is named 'seedless', destroying all diseases.

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Rasamañjarī — Śālinātha, Sanskrit