Rasadhyaya 13_41
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13_41
The twelve defects of mercury, that is, pārada;
its purification, that is, stainlessness, by means of the remedies for those defects; then first I state the eighteen refinement processes such as distillation and transmutation speed-enhancement;
then the result, consisting of the production of silver and the like, from the refined mercuries;
then the origin of prepared gold amalgams and the like, and of calamine essence and the like;
then, "I state the rejuvenation that accomplishes the body and accomplishes metals"—such are the words of the venerable Kaṅkālaya's disciple.
Here he states in order the reply to what was promised.