Rasadhyaya 76_119

76_119

Having ground the leaves of the tree named śigru until they are dense, like an unguent, and having made a cup out of their lump; having thrown into that cup the mercury revived by casting off the copper according to the previous rule, as well as salt in a thirty-second part; having wrapped that cup in a cloth; having tied that cloth with a cord to a wooden stick; having tied that wooden stick with a cloth strip across the neck of the pot; having poured sour gruel together with lemon juice in three parts into the pot; the cloth having been tied in such a way that the cup hangs suspended above the sour gruel, it should be lowered so that the sour gruel does not touch it, [and] only the steam touches it. 1.70-76:1
Then a fire should be burned beneath the pot for a day and a night. 1.70-76:2
Then, having made a new cup with śigru leaves once more, the mercury should be steamed in the very same way for a day and a night by means of the swing-apparatus. 1.70-76:3
And if the earlier sour gruel dries up, fresh sour gruel should be added again. 1.70-76:4
Mercury thus steamed seven times over seven days with seven cups, when cooked henceforth, endures fire exceedingly. 1.70-76:5
Such is the steaming refinement process of revived mercury, the seventh. 1.70-76:6
Steaming according to another treatise: 1.70-76:7