Rasadhyaya 55_109

55_109

On a cauldron resembling half a jar, a clay coil is made underneath, and that is called the cauldron's bottom rim. .. 1.52-55:1 ..
Then, placing that previously made paste into the cauldron's bottom rim, and affixing over it a covering of strong, smooth cloth for concealment, one should smear the edges of that cloth all around the coil with smooth clay in such a way that they become as if fastened. .. 1.52-55:2 ..
Then, having placed that cauldron inverted over the mouth of an earthen pot half filled with water, and applying cloth-and-clay firmly at the point of union between the pot's neck and the cauldron's bottom rim, dried cow-dung cakes are burned inside the cauldron for four ghaṭīs. .. 1.52-55:3 ..
Then, due to the heat of the fire, the mercury escapes through the pores of the cloth's threads and goes into the middle of the water located in the pot below. .. 1.52-55:4 ..
The copper, however, remains clinging right in the bottom rim. .. 1.52-55:5 ..
Then once again, making a paste of copper powder and mercury as before, the mercury is caused to fall into the water as before by means of the apparatus consisting of the cauldron's bottom rim and the water-filled pot. .. 1.52-55:6 ..
When the distillation of mercury is performed thus seven times, minute defects such as blunted state and inertness disappear. .. 1.52-55:7 ..
Such is the fifth refinement process, the distillation of swooned and revived mercury. .. 1.52-55:8 ..