Rasamanjari 7

English (machine translation) 7

Language: English

7.1

Rmañj, 7
Having bowed to the fearless lord, Lord of the Sky gods, ruler of the universe, / space-clad, three-eyed, destroyer of old age and death:

7.2

The rejuvenative has been described by Śiva as both nectar and poison: / combined with proper procedure it is nectar, but devoid of proper procedure it is poison.

7.3

This should be taken after purging for the removal of all humours: / the discerning practitioner should first consume calcined mica for one month;

7.4

afterwards, he who desires cultivation of the body should apply [it] to the body, / for without cultivation of the body, mercury, even though ambrosial, becomes poison.

Whence could there be success of its fruit, just as of good seed in barren soil? / O Goddess, one should not undertake any rejuvenative without preparing the field; / cultivation of the field must be performed in every rejuvenation.

7.6

Ash of mercury and twice as much sulphur, triturated for a moment with aloe vera; / sealed, one should cook it in a light pit-firing; extracting it, with honey and ghee,

7.7

one should eat a niṣka: the mercury Gandhāmṛta kills old age and death. / One should powder bhṛṅgarāja together with its roots, dried in the shade;

7.8

an equal quantity of powder of the three myrobalans, and sugar should be equal to the whole. / One should eat one pala afterwards, and that removes death and disease.

7.9

<Hemasundararasa>
One should take gold ash equal to a fourth part of calcined mercury.

7.10

Combined with milk, ghee, and honey, one māṣa in a bell-metal vessel: / one should lick it for six months; it destroys old age and death.

7.11

One karṣa of bākucī powder soaked in emblic myrobalan juice / should be licked daily as an after-potion; this is the mercury Hemasundara.

7.12

<Mṛtasaṃjīvanī Guṭikā>
Purified mercury, diamond ash, the essences of mica and copper pyrites, / and gold equal to magnetic iron: one should triturate vigorously in lemon juice

7.13

for seven days, all in equal parts. Having made it into a ball, one should take it out. / With elephantopus, black nightshade, barren-woman weed, vitex negundo, honey, and rock salt,

7.14

one should smear the inside of a diamond crucible, and place the ball in it. / Having covered it with those pastes, one should cook it in a subterranean pit for a fortnight,

7.15

taking it out yāma by yāma, smearing the crucible again and again, / then sealing and cooking it as before; one should extract it after a fortnight.

7.16

With barley, tamarind, butea monosperma seeds, black mustard, and cotton seeds: / with these one should coat a crucible, and place the pill into it.

7.17

Giving borax and white glass, very firmly, for a yāma, / by the application of khadira charcoal, this mercury becomes melted.

7.18

In a crucible, with the application of an elixir-solvent, one should digest an equal amount of gold. / Then it should be triturated for three yāmas with cow's urine for one day.

7.19

Placed in a blind crucible and blown, it becomes bound like diamond. / The pill named Mṛtasaṃjīvanī, held in the mouth,

7.20

measuring one karṣa, destroys old age and death—this is the truth spoken by Śiva; / it produces arrest of weapons, and the man obtains the lifespan of Brahmā.

7.21

<Vīryarodhinīguṭikā>
One should triturate purified mercury measuring four niṣkas / with betel leaf juices for seven days and wash it with sour liquids.

7.22

Having placed it inside an aconite tuber, one should enclose it with aconite itself. / Then, having placed it inside pork, one should sprinkle it,

7.23

having offered an oblation with a hen and liquor at twilight. / Then, in an iron vessel on a hearth, in oil mixed with dhattūra juice,

7.24

having thrown in thirty palas [of oil], that mercury mass wrapped in meat should be cooked. / Beginning at twilight, one should cook it over a mild fire until sunrise.

7.25

One must forcefully keep awake, otherwise it will not succeed. / Having extracted the pill in the morning, one should drop it into a vessel of milk.

7.26

That milk dries up quickly; this is the proof. / At the time of sexual union, the semen-retaining pill is to be held in the mouth.

7.27

Having drunk milk, he should make love to a woman filled with intense desire. / When he moves it from his mouth into his hand, then he releases semen.

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Rasamañjarī — Śālinātha, Sanskrit