Rasendracudamani 9

English (machine translation) 9

Language: English

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[Chapter 9] / [The three sweets:] / Clarified butter, candy sugar, and honey are known as the three sweets. / [The group of urines:] / The urines of elephant, camel, female buffalo, donkey, and horse;

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Of cow, goat, and sheep; one should employ [the urine of] females and males, menstrual flow, and semen. / [The five earths:] / Brick, red ochre, salt, ash, and anthill earth

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Are proclaimed as the five earths by those skilled in mercury practices. / [The three alkalis:] / Borax, barley-ash alkali, and pearlash alkali as the third.

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[The group of alkalis:] / Palāśa, kadalī, śigru, sesame, apāmārga, mokṣaka, / radish, tintiḍī, bodhi, raktarājagiri,

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Kambala, and aparakuḍyā; and the distinct alkali of these / is called the group of alkalis, digestive stimulant and of great power;

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It also digests gems and the like, and digests all metals and the like. / [The group of acids:] / Amlavetasa, citron, lime, sweet lime,

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Jujube, pomelo, tamarind, cukrikā, / chickpea acid, fermented gruel, as well as amlikā and sour pomegranate,

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Karamarda, and acid kola: this is called the group of acids; / it is beneficial for the purification, liquefaction, and digestion of mercury and other substances.

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[The group of salts:] / Sea salt, rock salt, glass-salt, that called viḍ-salt, / black salt, then Sambhar salt, cullika salt, and gaḍa and others:

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This group of salts is appetizing, carminative, and digestive stimulant; / it is a liquefier and purifier of all metals and ashes as well.

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[The group of poisons:] / Śṛṅgika, kālakūṭa, vatsanābha, saktuka, / and pīta: this group of poisons is proclaimed as the foremost.

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This is commended in mercurial operations, and also in its binding and killing; / consumed improperly, it definitely causes death.

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[The group of minor poisons:] / Lāṅgalī, viṣamuṣṭi, karavīra, and jayā, / nīlaka, kanaka, and arka: this constitutes the group of minor poisons.

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It is digestive stimulant, carminative, purgative, and occasionally employed with mercury; / among animate poisons and the like, snake venom is second to none.

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[The group of oils:] / Of sesame, flax, safflower, neem, karanja, / black mustard, white mustard, and the seeds of guñjā and kaṅguṇī,

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and with the oils of Madhūka: [this] group of oils is beneficial for mercury.
[Group of Milks]
Elephant, horse, woman, cow, donkey, goat, sheep,

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camel, Udumbara, Aśvattha, Arka, Nyagrodha, Tilvaka,
Dugdhikā, the Snuhī group, and likewise Uttamakarṇikā:

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with the milks of these, the group of milks is prescribed for mercury and other [substances].
[Group of Biles]
Of the buffalo, boar, fish, goat, peacock,

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black cobra, rohita fish, and cat: by these biles / the group of biles is declared for the killing, binding, and impregnation of mercury.

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[Group of Fats]
With the fat originating from the flesh of frogs, turtles, boars, snakes, and men, / the group of fats is praised in mercurial operations.

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[Group of Dungs]
Of the pigeon, blue jay, dove, peacock, / vulture, and cock: the group of dungs is indeed declared.

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It is indeed a purifier of all metals by means of roasting and smearing.
[Red Group]
Safflower, Khadira, lac, madder, red sandalwood,

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Girimṛt, Bandhujīva, and likewise Karpūragandhinī, / and pyrite: this is to be known as the red group, exceedingly tinting.

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[Yellow Group]
Kiṃśuka, Karṇikāra, and the two kinds of turmeric: / this yellow group is indicated for operations on the king of rasas [i.e., mercury].

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[White Group]
Tagara, Kuṭaja, Kunda, Guñjā, and likewise Jīvantikā, / and white lotus rhizome: [this] is declared the white group.

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[Black Group]
Plantain, Krūravallī, Triphalā, indigo, Nala, / mud, ferrous sulphate, and tender mango: [this] is declared the black group.

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With the red group and the other groups, the substance intended for digestion / should be carefully impregnated, indeed to attain such a colour.

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[Purifying Group]
With glass, borax, and oystershell, the purifying group is recognized; / it is the destroyer of impurities in metallic essences, bound mercury, and metals, / and is declared by alchemists to destroy the film [on metals].

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[Softening Group]
Here, the horns of a female buffalo and a ram, joined with seeds born of Indrayava, / and hare bones: this formulation destroys the hardness of metals.

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[Flux Group]
Jaggery, guggulu, Guñjā, ghee, and honey, combined with borax: / this group is recognized for melting all difficult-to-melt metals and the like.

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All alkalis destroy impurity; acid causes purification and digestion; / poisons kill sluggishness; unctuous substances produce unctuousness.

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Rasendracūḍāmaṇi — Somadeva (alchemist), Sanskrit