Rasadhyaya 239_281

239_281

First melting four palas of pure copper separately, then powdering four palas of blue vitriol and four palas of chalcopyrite, thus eight palas, and adding it little by little into it, melting again and again, one should digest it so long / until only the copper remains. / The meaning is that the entire four palas of medicament are digested. / Thus the third, the chalcopyrite amalgam. // 1.238-239:1-4