Rasadhyaya 218_256

218_256

Here, first, having made a leaf from a faultless sheet of pure lead, having placed a mere rati of the penetrated mercury there, having melted the thin [metal] situated on the lead sheet and made an ingot-cone, one should melt that ingot-cone. 1.217-218:1
Then it becomes a powder. 1.217-218:2
Then, having melted all the previously mentioned metals such as lead and tin, measuring a thousand ratis, while the molten metal is still swirling, one should throw in a mere rati of the powder of the ingot-cone mercury. 1.217-218:3
Then the gold stuck at the bottom is to be taken. 1.217-218:4
This is mercury that projects a thousandfold. 1.217-218:5
Thus ends the seventeenth refinement process, projection, of penetrated mercury. 1.217-218:6