[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Alchemy and Iatrochemistry](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa) › [Metallurgical alchemy and transmutation into gold](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada) › [Rasādhyāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt) › 69\_114 # Rasadhyaya 69\_114 English (machine translation) 69\_114 - **Language:** English ### [69\_114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.69_114) In the previous formulation, for the sake of the refinement process of distillation, mercury was separated from copper and copper from mercury seven times. 1.56-69:1 In this formulation too, that very thing is done; however, there it was for distillation, while here it is for the revival of what has been distilled—this is the distinction. 1.56-69:2 And that is done as follows: 1.56-69:3 Sixty-six palas of mercury, sixteen palas of copper powder, \[and\] two palas of salt: grinding everything in lemon juice, making a paste as before, placing it in an earthen bowl, placing an earthen bowl face-down in the middle above it, at the junction of the two rims, it is smeared with clay-smeared cloth. 1.56-69:4 This apparatus is called the ḍamaruka apparatus and the vidyādhara apparatus. 1.56-69:5 Then, having applied cow dung to the outer side at the base of the upper bowl, a gentle fire should be burned for just one watch beneath the base of the lower bowl. 1.56-69:6 Then the mercury, flying up, goes into the upper bowl. 1.56-69:7 And the copper remains in the lower bowl. 1.56-69:8 When the revival of the mercury has thus been performed again and again seven times, the mercury becomes pervasive. 1.56-69:9 "Pervasive" means sharp and endowed with the property of spreading. 1.56-69:10 Such is the revival refinement process of distilled mercury, the sixth. 1.56-69:11 - [Previous: 69\_113](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.69_113) - [Next: 70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.70) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.69_114](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.dhatuvada.rasadhyaya~en-mt.69_114) · Pramāṇa