Rasadhyaya 42_90

42_90

And here is the traditional instruction: (1.38-42:1) / The juice of the prescribed drug is poured over the mercury in a mortar. (1.38-42:2) / It is to be ground as the mercury sinks down [into the liquid]. (1.38-42:3) / Slowly, slowly, if the surface juice of the drug dries up, it should be poured again. (1.38-42:4) / When the mercury has been ground in this manner for seven days, the mortar is filled with sour gruel and it is ground slowly again; then cloth wicks are inserted and positioned so that the ends of the wicks touch the ground; (1.38-42:5) / and by them the sour gruel drips out and drains away. (1.38-42:6) / In this way, having ground the mercury with each of all the drugs for seven days, it is afterwards to be washed with sour gruel. (1.38-42:7) / And these are the eleven drugs: (1.38-42:8) / milk of vajra, (1.38-42:9) / milk of arka, (1.38-42:10) / palāśa flat-cake, (1.38-42:11) / decoction of citraka, (1.38-42:12) / vajrakanda, (1.38-42:13) / bitter bottle-gourd, (1.38-42:14) / bīaṅka, (1.38-42:15) / decoction of triphalā, (1.38-42:16) / decoction of citraka once more, (1.38-42:17) / aśvagandhā, (1.38-42:18) / nāhī, (1.38-42:19) / aṅkudhya. (1.38-42:20) / Here decoction of citraka occurs twice; therefore among the twelve drugs there are only eleven: thus concludes the third refinement process, the purification of mercury. (1.38-42:21)