Anandakanda 1.24

Ānandakanda, chapter 1.24
<Fixations of mercury utilizing primary minerals, secondary minerals, and metals for transmutation>
Śrī Bhairava said:
O Supreme Goddess, by means of primary minerals, secondary minerals, and metals,
explain that entire fixation of the lord of mercury for the purpose of transmutation.

<Fixations with tourmaline; first method>
One part of tourmaline, eight parts of quicksilver,
seven parts of gold, with juice of dvipadī and borax,

ground until destroyed, dried, and blown, becomes a khoṭa lump, O dear one.
Having repeatedly added antimonite, borax, and glass, one should purify it.

Having melted it along with an equal amount of gold in a crucible,
one should then make it swallow an equal part of pure quicksilver.

One should blow the tourmaline with a sixteenth part according to the previous recipe.
From the application of the tenfold chain, the transmutation increases tenfold.

<Second method>
I shall declare another application, rare on earth:
The essence of tourmaline, O Goddess of the gods, combined with mercury,

digested with an equal part of gold, one should deposit in a stone vessel.
Having remained buried in the earth for a month, diligently unearthing it,

this divine mercury, O Goddess, brings about [perfection of] the body and wealth.
<Third method>
Whatever varieties of tourmaline there are, with juice of the three myrobalans,

each steamed for seven days, O Goddess, and likewise ground,
well blown in a blind crucible, becomes an imperishable khoṭa lump.

One should combine lodestone, silver, gold, and mercury,
and a third part of copper combined with stibnite.

When blown, that has attained the state of a khoṭa lump, and brings about [perfection of] the body and transmutation of base metals.
<Fourth method: accomplished with white tourmaline>
One should grind powder of white tourmaline with horse urine.

First taking it well-steamed, one should cast in a hundred palas to one pala.
An ash of silver is produced resembling pure rock crystal.

The wise man should mix that ash in equal parts into quicksilver.
One should digest silver into the quicksilver, and grind it with horse urine.

One should calcinate it in a blind crucible gradually with a mild fire
for a day and night, or for three nights; the mercury becomes fire-resisting.

By touch it will turn all metals into silver.
<Fifth method: accomplished with red tourmaline>
The procedure for the red [variety] will be told, which destroys old age and poverty.

One should steep its powder seven times with the tuber-juice of vyāghrī.
One pala of that, one pala of gold, and one pala of pure mercury,

it all becomes pure ash; one should cast into it a hundred [parts] of gold again.
That entire ash is produced with a luster like that of pure gold.

One should mix that ash into the lord of mercury, again with gold.
It becomes fire-resisting, O Goddess; then it becomes an excellent mercury.

The quicksilver becomes an all-transmuter; the supreme mineral transmutes ten million fold.
<Sixth method>
One should mix the essence of red tourmaline with gold,

and digest it equally in quicksilver; having moved it with an equal [measure],
with a one-thousandth part, it transmutes metals—there is no doubt of this.

<Seventh method: accomplished with black tourmaline>
One part of black tourmaline, one hundred parts of pure quicksilver:
one should grind them together in a mortar, and those two become a powder.

One part of this powder, one thousand parts of gold:
one should grind them together until ash is produced.

One should blow that in a blind crucible until it becomes a khoṭa lump.
Its swallowing is of equal parts; one should prepare a base for it.

By mere touch it transmutes all metals into gold.
One should grind that powder and mica together with mercury,

steam it, and digest it, and then it becomes fire-resisting.
That mercury, having been moved, transmutes all metals.

<Eighth method: accomplished with yellow tourmaline>
Even for yellow tourmaline, the rule of the red and black is remembered.
Powder of yellow tourmaline along with gold powder,

and powder of yellow mica, having combined them, the great mercury,
steamed and ground, becomes fire-resisting in a month.

<Blue tourmaline ash rejuvenation therapy>
Blue tourmaline, combined with mercury, is incinerated;
together with black mica, and combined with honey and ghee,

one should consume it for a maṇḍala period, O Goddess; one will live as long as the moon, sun, and stars.
For whatever formulation belongs to whichever [variety], by application of each,

having mixed the mercury to the measure of a guñjā combined with the three sweets,
one should eat it; one's food should be milk, ghee, and śāli rice, and one should avoid other [foods].

<Ninth method>
Combined with the essence of tourmaline, one should grind mercury in the sour juice of citron;
one should heat it with hot water, and fill it with water.

Having blended the essence and quicksilver, one should blow it; fixation of mercury takes place.
Placing the fixed mercury in the mouth, one sees subterranean cavities.

<Tenth method>
One should grind one niṣka of mercury and tourmaline with horse urine.
Having ground this for one day, O Goddess, it becomes dead [incinerated].

Having done this for four days, one should bring equal quicksilver to an equal [measure];
grinding and steaming, as before, with a pure mind,

one [part] produced from seven pairs, on the seventh [stage] it becomes eight palas.
One should grind it for a day with water of the roots of śalyā and viśalyā;

placed inside a subterranean apparatus, one should give calcination for seven days.
That pure ash should be consumed to the measure of a guñjā for a maṇḍala period.

Beginning with one, the fifth in the middle, again one is praised;
fixation is as before, O Goddess; the mercury transmutes ten million fold.

<Fixation with lodestone>
Lodestone of red color, having a luster like lac juice,
resembling discharge of female blood, its powder combined with quicksilver,

one should grind with goat's blood; when blown, it becomes a khoṭa lump, O dear one.
That quicksilver transmutes a hundredfold, and it dispels disease.

One should hold the pill in the mouth; one will live for a thousand years.
Lodestone of yellow color, with a luster resembling fractured gold,

transmutes metals by mere touch, O beautiful woman.
<Fixation with capalā; first method>
Lāṅgalī, oleander, citraka, and girikarṇikā,

human milk, borax, and antimonite: one should make a crucible coating.
Twice the quicksilver of the capalā, and twice the gold of the quicksilver,

one should grind to disappearance, place in a blind crucible, and blow it.
Residing therein, this lord of mercury becomes an auspicious khoṭa lump.

It should transmute one hundredth part of lead, which then becomes the color of a guñjā seed. / With one hundredth part of that lead, copper becomes red-hued.

With one hundredth part of that copper, silver is transmuted into gold.
<The second method>
Six parts of capala and seven parts of silver,

eight parts of gold, and nine parts of mercury, / all together make thirty parts, O goddess praised by the gods.

Citraka, kaṇavīra, lāṅgalī, and vulture dung: / ground with the acidic juice of citron, one should make a coating for the crucible.

Sealing it and blowing upon it, O goddess, an excellent khoṭa is formed. / Lead penetrated with a tenth part of that khoṭa becomes reddish-brown.

Copper penetrated with that lead becomes red like a guñjā seed. / Silver penetrated with that copper is transmuted into gold.

<The third method>
Gold-mica and capala, O goddess, combined with half part of mercury: / having added gold with the mercury, one should grind it for a moment with realgar.

Lāṅgalī, citraka, woman's breast-milk, kaṇavīraka, / and vulture dung—with all this one should make a coating for the crucible.

Kept inside it and blown upon, an excellent khoṭa is formed. / One should transmute [metals] as described before; this becomes gold without a seed.

In a well-heated iron vessel one should throw powder of capala. / Having seeded mercury, one should cast it into the capala.

The quicksilver is bound, resembling lac, like a great elephant by a goad.
<Sulphur-fixation; the first method>
One pala of purified quicksilver and one pala of sulphur:

having united and ground them with the juice of dhuttūra, / one should kill it by the wheel method; the quicksilver turns to ash.

Placed in a blind crucible and blown upon, an excellent khoṭa is formed. / It can transmute white [silver], gold, lead, and silver and copper.

<The second method>
One pala of purified quicksilver and one karṣa of sulphur, / one should grind in an oily mortar flooded with the juice of devadālī.

One should grind it with the fingers of the hand until a sulphur paste is formed; / then one should grind it for a single day with the juice of lime.

One should make an auspicious pellet combined with the five solvents; / one should coat that pellet with a paste of palāśa root.

When blown, a khoṭa forms through the addition of white glass and borax. / One should purify it with effort until it attains stainlessness.

That khoṭa is formed, O goddess; then three times as much lead / one should color hundreds of times with copper, mica, and calx of skull.

Upon copper and silver, this khoṭa is a transmuter in a thousandth part.
<The third method>
When quicksilver is killed by sulphur, one should introduce calcinated metals.

Having melted gold again, consume an equal portion. / Flown with copper and silver, the quicksilver transmutes bell-metal.

<The fourth method>
Making mercury equal to the gold, with half the paste of sulphur, / combined with powder of dvipadī, one should grind it together with borax.

Rubbed to disappearance and dried, it is blown; then a khoṭa is formed. / Transmuted in a sixteenth part of silver and copper, it becomes gold.

Combined with half part of gold, it attains equality with the matrix. / By the application of chain-multiplication, transmutation increases tenfold.

As with gold, so with silver, when combined with Vyāṭi's seed. / Bound in the third chain, it transmutes lead six hundredfold.

With that fourfold, it produces gold in a thousandfold proportion. / If seven chains are performed by this orderly process,

it turns the eight metals into divine gold, O Pārvatī. / Pulverizing that again and subjecting it to a puṭa, ash is produced.

When one pala is properly consumed, O goddess, there is conquest over all diseases. / With two palas, a lifespan like Brahmā's is attained; with three palas, one like Viṣṇu's.

With four palas, oneness with the five elements; with five palas, one becomes the Lord. / When six palas are consumed, O goddess, one obtains a body like Sadāśiva's.

<The fifth method>
Quicksilver, sulphur, silver, and fat of meṣavallī in equal parts / one should grind for three days a hundred thousand times, and coat tin with a quarter part.

Placed in a blind crucible and blown, it solidifies tin in an instant.
<The sixth method; procedure for sulphur paste>
Powdered sulphur, O goddess, impregnated with juice of markaṭī:

one should impregnate it a hundred times, and it goes to living ash. / One should place it in an earthen vessel together with mercury.

One should heat it with the heat of the sun, mixed with juice of markaṭī. / The quicksilver swallows the sulphur, and in an instant it becomes a paste.

Then one should impregnate the sulphur with the juice of tilaparṇī / seven times, O ruler of the gods, drying it in the shade again and again.

Purified and sublimated quicksilver, to the measure of one pala, O beloved, / cast into a crucible together with the juice of narendrī,

one should digest the impregnated sulphur again in a sand bath apparatus. / The sulphur must be given pinch by pinch, again and again.

By this orderly procedure a sulphur paste is formed. / The powder of brimstone, with the juice of gold [or thorn-apple],

one should impregnate seven times, and seven times with menstrual blood. / Then one should place one pala of purified quicksilver into an earthen vessel.

One should add the impregnated sulphur mixed with human bile. / One should stir it in the heat of the sun; it becomes a paste in an instant.

Fine powder of sulphur, O Pārvatī, with chickpea-acid / one should impregnate seven times, and seven times with woman's menstrual blood.

Into melted quicksilver one should introduce camphor, sulphur, and mercury, / and place it in a cow-pen; after seven days a sulphur paste is formed.

<Solidification and transmutation with the sulphur paste>
Seeds of bitter kośātakī and root of cāṇḍālī / ground with breast-milk: one should coat the paste with that.

One should incinerate it in a bhūdhara apparatus; it solidifies without a doubt. / Within a gold casket one should melt it completely.

One should apply transmutation of lead with an eighth part of it. / One should apply transmutation of silver with a sixteenth part of it.

<The seventh method>
One pala of sulphur paste and eight palas of lead paste: / one should coat sheets of lead and then dry them in the shade.

One should coat the lead sheets with a paste of āṭarūṣaka, / and subject it to three puṭas with wild cow dung cakes, O goddess.

That lead is killed, divine, possessing the radiance of cinnabar red. / Taking one pala of that lead and eight palas of copper powder,

One should grind [it] with the juice of vāsaka for one prahara; / one should kill [it] in a pātanāyantra apparatus; that copper is killed instantly.

With a one-sixteenth part of that very [substance], one should effect the piercing of silver; / divine gold is produced, an ornament for the adornment of gods.

With any sulfur-amalgam, one should first kill lead; / with the lead one should pierce copper, and in copper one should pierce silver.

Divine gold is produced: [thus] an accomplished recipe is declared. / <Eighth method> / Sulfur combined with honey, ground with Śiva's seed,

buried in the earth for one month, transforms silver into gold. / By anointing with that alone, all skin diseases are destroyed;

combined with mica, it destroys ulcerous diseases. / By using it for a year, a man attains a lifespan of a thousand [years].

<Orpiment-fixation> / One pala of pure quicksilver and one pala of orpiment, / having unified them, then having ground them with the juice of dhattūra,

one should kill [them] by means of the cakrayantra: the quicksilver is reduced to ash. / Placed in a blind crucible and blown, it becomes an excellent solid mass.

The mercury should pierce tin, silver, and copper in sequence. / One pala of purified tin and one pala of quicksilver,

and two palas of orpiment—ground with dhattūra juice, / one should kill [them] in a pātanāyantra; by blowing, one should bring it to the state of a solid mass.

The essence of white mica, silver, sharp iron, and pyrite— / placed in a blind crucible and blown, it instantly becomes a solid mass.

One pala of that solid mass, one pala of quicksilver, / and a pala of orpiment: having unified all [these], one should then grind [them];

one should kill [them] in a pātanāyantra; by blowing, one should bring it to the state of a solid mass. / <Other minor fixations> / One pala of pure quicksilver and one pala of lead,

and two palas of realgar: one should grind all together; / one should kill [them] in a pātanāyantra; by blowing, one should bring it to the state of a solid mass.

One pala of gold amalgam and one pala of sulfur, / having unified and ground them with the juice of dhattūra,

one should kill [them] in a pātanāyantra; by blowing, one should bring it to the state of a solid mass. / The essence of black mica, magnetic iron, sharp iron, and gold,

pure silver, and pyrite: one should take equal parts. / Placed in a blind crucible and blown, it instantly becomes a solid mass.

One pala of that solid mass, one pala of quicksilver, / and two palas of realgar: one should grind all together;

one should kill [them] in a pātanāyantra; by blowing, one should bring it to the state of a solid mass. / One pala of black mica, likewise a pala of calamine,

and one pala of quicksilver: all unified, my dear, / one should grind with the juice of dhattūra for two praharas,

or grind for one day, combined with borax; / afterwards one should make a pill and dry it in the shade.

Placed in a great smelting-crucible and blown, the quicksilver becomes a solid mass. / One should purify that solid mass by the application of glass and borax fluid;

having smelted it together with gold and led [it] through three transfers, / with a one-thousandth part of it one should effect the piercing of copper;

by this sequential procedure, the mercury becomes a piercer of ten million [parts]. / Two seeds of palāśa and one pala of quicksilver:

having ground [them] with lemon juice, one should dry [it] in the shade. / Bitter gourd, meghanādī, kākajaṅghā, bhūlikā,

and breast milk: one should cast it into a crucible smeared with these; / one should blow with charcoal of khadira wood; it becomes an imperishable solid mass.

It should be ground in palāśa oil until it becomes a liquid paste; / placed in a blind crucible and blown, it instantly becomes a solid mass.

With quicksilver previously purified and with an equal amount of gold, O Pārvatī, / having ground them firmly, one should form a ball from it.

Seeds of the palāśa tree, cotton seeds, vibhītaka, / together with yavaciñcā, vandhyākārkoṭakī, and mustard:

all made into a fine lump; having coated the ball with it, / by seven heatings, O goddess, the arrest of the paste occurs.

Then having applied a large pit-fire, one should blow [it] in a crucible; / having melted that quicksilver, combined with an equal part of gold,

with a one-hundredth part one should pierce silver and copper, O you who are adored by the gods. / Again, by that very recipe one should effect the arrest of the paste;

then having led [it] through with gold, the piercing is one to a thousand; / thus in sequential fashion one can pierce hundred thousands and ten millions.

Having placed that ball in the mouth beyond seven days, / within one year one becomes free of wrinkles and gray hair.

With flowers of cāṇḍālī and rākṣasī, and with honey, ghee, and borax, / among the eight primary minerals one should employ that, or mica.

Quicksilver equal to lead and tin, or gold and silver, / or mica, or melted essence: one should grind for two praharas.

Then the ball, dried in the shade, placed in a blind crucible, my dear, / subjected to a light pit-fire and blown, becomes an excellent solid mass.

Plantain, vīrā, euphorbia milk, kañcukī, yavaciñcikā, / dīnārī, gorambhā, mīnākṣī, and kākamācikā:

for quicksilver ground with these, there is no recurrence [of defects]; / by the sequential method as before, it becomes an excellent solid mass.

Viṣṇukrāntā, curved aṅkābalā, and basil, / mahāsomā, betel vine, and sūryāvarta, O beautiful one:

quicksilver ground with these should be brought to the state of a solid mass as before. / Euphorbia milk, kāñjīra, and seeds of dhattūra,

kañcukī, lāṅgalī, colocynth, poison-nut tree, / and water from the root of the palāśa tree: with this one should grind the quicksilver.

Quicksilver equal to equal gold: the wise one should make a paste; / with primary minerals equal to half the paste, one should grind with the juices of herbs;

having ground for three yāmas, the wise one should form a ball; / having bound the paste, one should cook it in sulfur-oil.

The ball, placed in a blind crucible, should be dried in the shade; / then, having given a light pit-fire, one should blow it in a khadira-fire.

It forms like a solid mass, O goddess; one should blow it together with gold; / undiminished, it unites in gold, and uniform fusion takes place.

From that quicksilver, immediately, a man's body becomes divine; / colored and projected, the mercury will pierce all base metals.

When quicksilver consumes an equal part, one should grind it with the juices of herbs; / having made it into an imperceptible paste, one should blow it according to the previous recipe.

A divine khoṭa is produced that transmutes at a one-sixteenth ratio; / bound through sequential combination, it transmutes tenfold more.

Or else, when bound as powder, it transmutes tenfold more. / Mṛgadūrvā, candravallī, ripe bimbā, and likewise,

kāṅkṣīlā, karavīra, and the seed of unmattaka, / combined with the flesh of kākāṇḍī—one should grind them, O beautiful woman among the gods!

A wise man should make a paste of an equal part of gold and an equal part of quicksilver; / or, having made an equal part of quicksilver flow into an equal [part of gold],

a wise man should grind the paste of the great mercury with the juices of medicinal herbs; / having ground it for three watches, he should make it into a ball.

He should dry in the shade the ball placed inside a blind crucible; / then, having given it a light firing, it is blown and becomes a khoṭa, O dear one!

The flow-treatment of quicksilver is done with the juices of mṛgadūrvā and uttamāsomā; / it is killed by the roots of the three [plants], by lāṅgalī, and by asafoetida.

A wise man should make a paste combined with an equal part of gold; / or he should make a silver paste with an equal part of quicksilver.

According to the previous method, it becomes a fine khoṭa. / Placed inside a blind crucible on the ground, he should sweat it with a fire of dry chaff

for a day and night, or for three nights; then the powder fixation takes place. / That powder fixation performs a tenfold higher transmutation.

Quicksilver [ground with] juice of śūlinī and combined with srotoñjana, / through the combination of paste as before, becomes a fine khoṭa.

Mercury with srotoñjana, tagara, and the three creations / quickly becomes fire-tolerant; that quicksilver accomplishes all works.

Gold-mica, silver-mica, copper-mica, mica with sharp iron, / tin-mica, and lead-mica should be bound together with quicksilver.

Rubbed with available herbs, combined with the great mercury, / with gold, silver, copper, sharp iron, tin, and lead,

having made a paste with these singly or combined, equal to an equal [part of quicksilver], / he should kill it according to the previous rule in a garbha apparatus with a chaff fire.

Having added an equal portion of quicksilver again and again, repeatedly, / a manifold khoṭa is produced, a great mercury bound with magnetic iron.

Through sequential combination, the transmutation becomes tenfold more. / <Nigala fixation> / Khoṭa, poṭa, and likewise calcined ash, and the dust-like preparation as the fifth;

the fruition of all fixations arises from these two through the application of a nigala binder: / the milk derived from snuhī and arka, the binding seeds, guggulu,

and rock salt added at double the amount—the wise man should grind them. / Having made a binding paste with this paste, O beautiful woman,

and having made a very sturdy, auspicious crucible the size of a bilva fruit, / having placed salt above and below, he should throw the mercury into the center of the crucible.

Powder of burned conch shell and the like should be placed in the center of the crucible. / Having tightly sealed its mouth with saline clay, a wise man

should apply salt-clay to the seam and dry it in the shade. / This nigala fixation has been spoken; it is not told even to one's own son.

He should perform gentle sweating on the ground with a fire of chaff and cow dung, / carefully subjecting it to a firing for a day and night, or for three nights.

Well-blown with khadira charcoal, he should reduce the lord of mercury to a khoṭa. / Adding sauvīra, borax, and glass repeatedly, he should purify it.

Undiminished, it merges into the gold and an alloy forms; / that consumption of an equal part should be done with purified quicksilver.

He should blow it according to the previous method and reduce the lord of mercury to a khoṭa; / through sequential combination, the transmutation becomes tenfold more.

The exudate of palāśa seeds, kokilākṣa, unmattaka, vāruṇī, / combined with juice of śūlinī, he should grind together with rock salt.

Having enclosed the paste, he should bind it with a nigala binder: / with a sheet of mica, with diamond, milk of arka, and sea salt,

with iron pyrite, iron slag, sand, and clay. / Bound in a nigala binder with these, the great mercurial substance

does not cross its boundary, just as the great ocean does not cross the shore. / Oil, milk of arka, kataka, and lāṅgalī make an excellent nigala binder.

Crow droppings, brahmabīja seeds, and lāṅgalī make another nigala binder. / Vākucī, brahmabīja seeds, and crab shells, O beautiful woman,

sea salt, and sambhar salt make an excellent nigala binder. / He should take the milk derived from snuhī and arka, and brahmabīja seeds,

and seeds of datura, and grind them with the eight salts; this is another nigala binder. / Roots of gojihvā and woman's menses make another;

vākucī, brahmabīja seeds, milk of snuhī and arka, rock salt, / jvālinī, and crow droppings are praised as an excellent nigala binder.

Salt, borax, alkali, realgar, orpiment, sulfur, / as well as amlavetasa, iron pyrite, and cinnabar, in equal parts,

mixed with the milk of snuhī and arka, he should grind into an excellent nigala binder. / He should coat the paste with one of these nigala binders;

placed in a salt crucible as before, having made it a khoṭa, he should transmute [metals]. / I shall explain a second ball, an excellent fixation of the paste:

With the menstrual fluid and urine of a woman, rock salt, mica, and guggulu, / having enclosed the paste with that mixture, he should coat it eight times with clay.

He should perform gentle sweating on the ground with a fire of chaff and cow dung / for a day and night, or for three nights, and reduce it to a khoṭa as before.

Vākucī, brahmabīja seeds, mica, vimala, chalcanthite, / black salt, rock salt, borax, and guggulu,

and the urine [mixed] with menstrual fluid of a woman—he should grind that very finely; / having enclosed the paste with that mixture, he should reduce it to a khoṭa as before.

<Method for the swooning of mercury: first variety> / Now I shall explain the swooning of mercury, O Supreme Goddess! / Saffron, rock salt, aloe vera, datura, garlic, and sweet flag,

meghanādā, kākamācī; one should grind mercury with equal parts of all [these].
Making it into a smooth ball, one should coat it on the outside with asafoetida.

placed in equal proportion in a salt apparatus, he should cook it for a day / with a fierce fire; cooled of its own accord, the powdered mercury situated in the lower vessel

he should collect; tied tightly in a twofold cloth, / placed in a Somānala apparatus, having added an equal amount of sulfur on top,

he should cook it with sulfur again; in this way he should digest sulfur up to sixfold. / That swooned mercury, O goddess, removes all diseases.

<Second variety> / Sulfur and sal ammoniac in parts equal to purified quicksilver / he should grind finely for a watch and cast into a glass flask.

Having smeared the flask with seven layers of mud and cloth, he should dry it in the heat of the sun; / he should cook the flask in a sand apparatus for twelve watches.

That mercury becomes swooned [and] colored, O goddess. / <The third method> / Half as much sulfur as mercury is to be ground for two watches in fierce sunshine.

Then one should grind it with the juices of white jayantī for three days. / Then, making it into a ball, one should confine it inside a crucible.

Having dried it, one should blow [fire on it] slightly; when it is strongly heated, one should cast it into water. / Taking up that lord of mercury, one should impregnate it with the juices of gokṣura.

The quicksilver becomes swooned, auspicious, and a remover of all diseases. / <Characteristics of bound mercury> / Inexhaustible, quickly fusing, radiant, spotless, heavy,

bursting forth, [yet] recurrent—that quicksilver is called bound. / <The leech fixations; the rubbing leech> / An eighth part of the mercury of either gold or lead,

ripe fruit of śleṣmātaka, kokilākṣa seeds, / and powder of sesame oilcake: one should grind [these] in a heated mortar.

One should add all five parts of the śālmalī tree [and] mercury into it. / One should grind it until a leech is formed; then one should add:

camphor, bākucī oil, rock salt, borax, long pepper, / [and] hairs of kapikacchu—one should grind all of that with water.

[Grinding] this aforesaid leech for three weeks in a heated mortar, / a divine leech named "rubbing" is produced, O worshiped by the gods!

At the time of women's menses, it is to be applied into the cavity of the vagina; / it removes their haughtiness of passion and causes them to be overwhelmed with intoxication.

In maidenhood a leech of eight finger-breadths is to be used; in youth, one of ten finger-breadths; / for mature women, a leech of twelve finger-breadths is to be used.

Whoever holds it on his head, his semen becomes stabilized. / <The Manmatha leech> / An eighth part of the lord of mercury of either gold or lead,

bark of śālmalī, hastikanda, nīlā root, and leaves of muni: / unwearied, one should grind all [the above] in a heated mortar with the juices of these [plants].

Ripe fruit of śleṣmātaka, kokilākṣa seeds, / and well-ripened pulp of bilva: throwing [them] into it, one should grind them.

Until a leech is formed; and having thrown into it the ingredients beginning with camphor as before, / one should grind it in a heated mortar for three weeks.