Anandakanda 1.9

Āk, 1, 9
<Refinement of mercury suitable for rejuvenation therapy; the first method>
Śrī Bhairavī:
Tell me, O Lord, the processing of quicksilver that is suitable for rejuvenation therapy.
Śrī Bhairava:
Listen carefully, O Pārvatī, to the refinement [processes] beginning with purification:

Equal parts of grain-treated mica and mercury should be ground with juices of punarnavā / in a heated mortar for a day, O goddess. Placed in a vajra-crucible, the mercury

should be baked in a bhūdhara apparatus, and one must triturate it again; / grinding it with the aforementioned liquids as before and baking it again—

having done this ten times, it should be distilled in a distillation apparatus. / The mercury becomes pure, O goddess, and should be employed in a rejuvenation therapy preparation.

<Second method>
One should throw sulphur equal to a tenth part of the mercury into a heated mortar / and grind it for one watch with juices of triphalā, lime, aloe vera, and plumbago.

One should distill it in a distillation apparatus, and one should do this seven times. / Trituration with sulphur and distillation are thus performed, O beloved;

the mercury becomes pure, O goddess, and fit for a rejuvenation therapy preparation.
<Third method>
Cinnabar should be ground with sesame oil, female buffalo urine, and sour gruel,

and with beef, and cooked in an iron vessel over a gradual fire / for seven days, constantly stirring it with an iron rod together with the liquid.

Moistened with peacock gall, one should steep it in the sun for a day. / One should heat the cinnabar in a distillation apparatus over an intense fire;

after four watches, the mercury becomes pure and fit for rejuvenation therapy.
<Method of calcining mercury; the first method>
With sulphur equal [in weight] to the quicksilver that has digested mica from above and below,

one should place it in a fired crucible into a cavity four times [the size] of both. / Having added black nightshade juice and sealed it, over a gradual fire

one should bake the crucible placed in a guṇḍaka apparatus for four watches. / The quicksilver turns into ash; one should then employ it in rejuvenation therapy.

<Second method>
One should grind the digested quicksilver with spurge latex and an equal amount of sulphur / for a day, and then, inside a garbha apparatus in an incinerator, it becomes ash as before.

<Third method>
Quicksilver that has digested mica, with an equal part of lac, wool, honey, borax, / and jequirity seeds—one should grind all this with bhṛṅgarāja juice for one day.

Enclosed in a vajra-crucible, one should blow upon it; the mercury turns into ash.
<Fourth method>
One should grind mercury that has digested mica and equal sulphur for three days

with juices of Aristolochia indica, or with juice of Solanum surattense, / or with juice of kīṭamāriṇī, or with juice of white aṅkola.

One should burn it day and night over a cow-dung fire in an earthen sealed flask, / or over a chaff fire; after three days, the mercury turns into ash.

In a heated mortar, equal parts of diamond ash and quicksilver that has digested [minerals] should be ground for three days / with juices of haṃsapādī and with seeds originating from divine herbs.

One should smear it onto a vajra-crucible and first throw the mercury in there. / It should be cooked over a chaff fire for three days, and again with haṃsapādī liquid

one should grind it vigorously for three days and bake that ball as before. / The king of quicksilvers turns into ash resembling a conch, jasmine, or the moon.

<Killing of digested mercury; the first method>
Now I shall explain, O sovereign of the gods, the killing of digested mercury. / First one must perform the digestion with seed, O queen of gods.

If a fool out of negligence kills mercury that has not undergone digestion, / that vile sinner becomes a traitor to me and incurs great deadly sins:

a slayer of an embryo, a slayer of his guru, a cow-killer, and a slayer of women and children. / Therefore, with all effort, one should perform [digestion] beforehand,

and then the killing of the king of mercury, which is my seed, O Pārvatī. / Having placed cow dung on the ground, O goddess, and above that,

Placing [it] into a baked crucible, pouring into its midst the oil
produced from bitter bottle-gourd, one should then throw the quicksilver in on top.

Juice of kākamācī equal to the oil should be given, O lovely-faced woman!
Having added purified sulfur the size of a rice-grain, one should seal the crucible.

Above that, one should place an earthen dish filled with khadira charcoal.
Knowing that it has cooled of its own accord, having again added sulfur and the oil,

and having added kākamācī juice, [one should apply] fire thus again and again,
with dense cow-dung below and fire above.

Kākamācī juice, quicksilver, and oil—these three being equal,
one should cause [the quicksilver] to consume six times its weight of sulfur; in this way is the opening of the mouth of mercury.

One should grind that mercury again for a day with lemon juice;
a one-sixty-fourth part of gold leaf, piercing like a thorn,

and peacock bile and oil produced from mustard should be smeared [on it];
in the absence of oil and bile, salammoniac and sulfur.

That mercury and the gold leaf should be ground with the juices of lemon;
one should cook it as before over fire with the juices of lemon again.

One should seal the filled crucible and cause it to consume [it] again as before:
a thirty-second part of gold, and a sixteenth part after that.

Thus one should grind and cause it to consume; thereafter is the killing of quicksilver:
Taking kumbhī along with its roots, one should pound it with cow's urine.

The wise person should grind the mercury with that juice for one day;
placing it in an iron capsule, with regulators above and below,

it should be cooked in a hearth with a mild fire for a day; the mercury becomes an ash.
Inexhaustible, it destroys death and destroys senescence and poverty.

<The Second Method>
One karṣa of scented mercury, eight guñjās of gold,
and four guñjās of killed diamond should be ground with the juices of haṃsapadī.

Having placed it into a diamond crucible in a heated mortar, one should seal it,
and cook it in a bhūdhara-yantra; then, taking that mercury out again,

it should be ground with haṃsapādī liquids in a heated mortar for three days;
one should cook the quicksilver in a bhūdhara-yantra again and again as before.

Having thus performed a hundred incinerations, the ash will become red in color;
these ashes of mercury are praised in rejuvenation therapy.

<Rejuvenation Formulations; Mica Rejuvenation>
Rejuvenation therapy combined in preparations of one, two, three, four, and five [ingredients]
I shall describe in order, O mistress of the gods; therein also the administration of mica.

One whose body is purified by vomiting and other [purifications], having abandoned alkalines, sours, and the like,
should reduce mica essence to ash as before with the juices of bhṛṅga and the three myrobalans.

It should be macerated thrice seven times; in the morning one should consume two guñjās
with sugar; following that, one should lick honey and ghee with triphalā.

The increase [reaches] thirty-two guñjās; the vehicle is just one karṣa;
at the end of sixteen months, he is liberated from all disease.

By such use of mica he becomes eligible for the administration of loadstone.
<Loadstone Rejuvenation>
One should reduce loadstone to ash as before with the [juices] produced from the three myrobalans, nirguṇḍī, and bhṛṅga.

One should grind and macerate it thrice seven times in succession with the juices;
with honey and ghee, one should lick two guñjās' weight every morning.

Afterwards, powder produced from sinduvāra, the three myrobalans, and bhṛṅga
should be eaten in the measure of a karṣa with honey and ghee, the body having been purified by vomiting and other [measures].

The increase reaches thirty-two guñjās as its highest limit, O Īśvarī;
at the end of sixteen months, he becomes free from senescence and diseases.

After the administration of loadstone, he becomes eligible for loadstone and mica.
<Loadstone and Mica Rejuvenation>
Killed loadstone and mica in equal parts, and āmalakī, bhṛṅga, and punarnavā—

with their liquids it should be ground separately; at dawn one should lick two guñjās
with sugar, honey, and ghee, having purified oneself through vomiting and other [measures].

Powder of bhṛṅga, āmalakī, and punarnavā is the excellent vehicle;
that should be licked afterwards with honey and ghee, up to the limit of thirty-two guñjās.

Through a course of sixteen months, he overcomes wrinkles and gray hair, becoming strong;
from the administration of the essence of loadstone and mica, he becomes eligible for the administration of gold.

<Gold Rejuvenation>
One should reduce gold to ash as before; with a decoction of daśamūla,
one should grind and macerate it twenty-one times, O beloved!

With purified mind, one should lick the measure of a mudga bean in the morning with honey and ghee;
and the wise person should drink a pala of a decoction of guḍūcī and triphalā afterwards.

The increase reaches up to eight guñjās; after sixteen months,
he becomes radiant, strong, wise, clear-sighted, and free from disease;

he is liberated from wrinkles and gray hair and overcomes poison at all times.
<Gold and Mica Rejuvenation>
One should kill gold as before, and mica twice as much as that.

It is to be macerated thrice seven times with decoctions of daśamūla, the three myrobalans, and bhṛṅgī;
in the morning three māṣas are to be licked with honey and ghee; one should lick the vehicle [likewise].

After that, a pala of a decoction of guḍūcī and triphalā, O Pārvatī!
Twenty-four guñjās shall be the highest limit of its increase.

Through a course of sixteen months, he becomes endowed with divine radiance and great strength;
by the use of mica and gold, he becomes eligible for gold and loadstone.

<Gold and Loadstone Rejuvenation>
One should kill gold as before, and loadstone twice the portion of the gold;
one should macerate and grind [them] in succession twice seven times with āmalakī fruits.

In the morning one should consume three māṣas with sugar, and drink afterwards
a measure of one karṣa of āmalakī extract, ghee, and honey, O mistress of the gods!

Twenty-four guñjās shall be the highest limit of increase;
through a course of sixteen months, he is rid of wrinkles and gray hair,

having the fair luster of molten gold, like another Kāma;
by tasting gold and loadstone, he becomes eligible for loadstone, mica, and gold.

<Gold, Mica, and Loadstone Rejuvenation>
One should kill gold as before, and [take] loadstone essence and mica essence;
these three being equal, one should macerate them thrice seven times

with the water of muṇḍī, nirguṇḍī, bhṛṅga, and the three myrobalans, O Pārvatī!
In the morning, one should lick the measure of three māṣas drenched in honey and ghee.

Afterwards, one should lick powder of muṇḍī to the measure of one karṣa with honey and ghee,
and after that one should drink cow's milk to the measure of a pala, O Pārvatī!

Twelve vallas in number shall be the highest increase, O beloved!
Through a course of sixteen months, a man becomes endowed with a divine body.

From the consumption of gold, mica, and loadstone, he becomes qualified to eat diamond.
<Diamond Rejuvenation>
One should reduce diamond to ash as before, and grind it with juice of āmalakī.

The wise person should macerate it seven times; one should lick the measure of a rice-grain, O beloved,
joined with ghee and honey, and afterwards drink a pala of āmalakī juice.

an increase up to a valla occurs through a sixteen-month regimen. / [The practitioner becomes] long-lived, with a diamond body, divine vision, and great strength.

By the use of diamond, one becomes qualified for the ingestion of diamond and mica. / [The Rejuvenative Recipe of Diamond and Mica] / One should incinerate mica as before, and diamond [in an amount of] four times that of the diamond.

The mica should be processed twenty-one times with the juices of āmalakī and śatāvarī. / In the morning, one should lick [a measure of] just a barley-corn with honey and clarified butter, and afterward lick:

one pala of the juice of āmalakī and śatāvarī as a vehicle. / The ultimate increase should be up to four guñjās over sixteen months.

There will be perfection of speech, divine vision, and radiance equal to a deity. / By using mica and diamond, one becomes qualified for magnetic iron and diamond.

[The Rejuvenative Recipe of Magnetic Iron and Diamond] / One should reduce diamond to ash as before, and magnetic iron [in an amount of] four times that of the diamond. / The magnetic iron must be processed twenty-one times with the juices of aśvagandhā and triphalā.

A measure of a barley-corn mixed with honey and clarified butter should be licked at sunrise. / One should drink a karṣa of powder of aśvagandhā and triphalā with cow's milk.

The increase should be known to have an upper limit of four guñjās as the maximum limit. / By using this for sixteen months, one has brilliance like the morning sun;

possessing great strength and immense vitality, perfected in speech, one attains perfection. / By the use of diamond and magnetic iron, one becomes qualified for diamond, magnetic iron, and mica.

[The Rejuvenative Recipe of Diamond and Mica] / One should reduce diamond to ash as before, and magnetic iron and mica in fourfold proportion to the diamond. / And with magnetic iron and mica [thus prepared], with [juices of] triphalā, bhṛṅgarāja, and yellow amaranth,

it should be processed twenty-one times with the juices. One should lick [a measure of] a barley-corn, O dear one, / along with honey and clarified butter, combined with powder of bhṛṅgarāja, triphalā, and yellow amaranth.

And one should drink one pala of cow's milk; the highest limit is four guñjās. / By using this for sixteen months, one acquires vulture-like eyesight and great strength.

With unobstructed movement and steadfastness, one moves among the assembly of the Siddhas. / Through the use of magnetic iron, mica, and diamond, one becomes qualified for gold and diamond.

[The Rejuvenative Recipe of Gold and Diamond] / One should reduce diamond to ash as before, and gold [amounting to] two parts relative to the diamond. / The gold and diamond should be processed twenty-one times with the juices of punarnavā.

One should lick a quantity of a grain of rice with honey and clarified butter, and, O Queen of the gods, / a karṣa of punarnavā followed by a pala of cow's milk is to be drunk as a post-potion.

The increase should be up to two guñjās over the course of sixteen months. / One lives for a long time, freed from wrinkles and grey hair.

By the use of diamond and gold, one becomes qualified for gold, mica, and diamond. / [The Rejuvenative Recipe of Gold, Mica, and Diamond] / As before, O Pārvatī, one should reduce gold, mica, and diamond to ash:

gold twofold relative to diamond, and mica two parts relative to the gold. / It is to be processed twenty-one times with the essence of the tuber of musalī.

In the morning, one should lick [a measure of] a barley-corn with honey and clarified butter, and afterward drink / one karṣa of musalī powder with just a pala of cow's milk.

The increase has an upper limit of four guñjās over the course of sixteen months. / One conquers death, is free from senescence, possesses a diamond body, and has great strength.

By using this, one becomes qualified for diamond, gold, and magnetic iron. / [The Rejuvenative Recipe of Gold, Diamond, and Magnetic Iron] / Diamond, magnetic iron, and gold are reduced to ash as before:

gold twofold relative to diamond, and magnetic iron two parts relative to the gold. / One should grind [them] twenty-one times with the juices of āmalakī and bhṛṅgarāja.

In the morning, one should lick [a measure of] a barley-corn with honey and clarified butter, and afterward drink / a karṣa of powder derived from āmalakī and bhṛṅgarāja, and a pala of cow's milk.

The increase is four guñjās over the course of sixteen months. / Liberated from wrinkles and grey hair, one has divine luster and immense strength.

By using this, one becomes qualified for magnetic iron, gold, diamond, and mica. / [The Rejuvenative Recipe of Gold, Magnetic Iron, Diamond, and Mica] / One should reduce gold, magnetic iron, mica, and diamond to ash as described.

It should be processed twenty-one times with the juices of jyotiṣmatī. / In the morning, one should lick [a measure of] a barley-corn with honey and clarified butter, and afterward drink:

a karṣa of powder of aśvagandhā tuber and a pala of cow's milk. / An increase of four guñjās is the maximum limit, O Īśvarī.

By using it for sixteen months, one becomes equal to Indra visibly present. / By using this, O goddess, one becomes worthy to consume mercury.

[Ash of Mercury] / One should grind dhānyābhra mica and mercury in a heated mortar for three days / with [the juices] derived from triphalā, āragvadha, turmeric, kumārī, and black datura,

and one should triturate it with the liquids produced from punarnavā, citraka, and citron. / One should sublime it in a sublimation apparatus; thus, grinding and sublimation

one should perform three times; the mercury will become pure, free from defects. / One should grind it with controlling agents; having smeared a crucible with controlling agents,

the wise one should place that triturated quicksilver into the crucible. / Having sealed it, O Queen of the gods, it is to be cooked in the apparatus named bhūdhara.

And thus one should perform the grinding and calcining by puṭa seven times. / The ash of mercury will become bright white, suitable for use in rejuvenative formulations.

[The Āroṭaka Mercurials; Ash of Mercury Digesting Mica] / Now, the āroṭaka mercury, the unique cause of physical perfection: / in the morning, one should lick [a measure of] just a māṣa together with honey, clarified butter, and triphalā.

Freshly milked, warm cow's milk should be drunk as an after-drink according to measure, O beloved. / Having made an increase up to eight guñjās over sixteen months,

liberated from wrinkles and grey hair, one lives as long as the moon and stars endure. / By the use of this, O goddess, one becomes qualified for mica-assimilated quicksilver.

When the mercury is provided with a mouth, O goddess, taking sixty-four niṣkas [of it], / and adding just one niṣka of the metallic essence of mica, with citron juices,

one should grind it in a heated mortar for a day, and then cook it with saline flux in a tortoise apparatus; / taking that out, one should thoroughly grind it.

[Adding] two niṣkas of mica essence with sour citron juice, O Pārvatī, / the operation of cooking [is done] in a heated mortar [and] in the apparatus called tortoise.

And on the third [turn] four niṣkas, on the fourth and fifth respectively; / one should give eight niṣkas of mica essence at the fifth sublimation.

And sixteen niṣkas of mica [on the fifth]; on the sixth, thirty-two parts; / on the seventh, the essence should indeed be in equal proportion, O Pārvatī.

The digestion of the essence of mica takes place in the mercury, O beloved. / One should reduce the quicksilver-lord, having thus digested [the mica], to ash as before.

One pala of this quicksilver ash and four palas of mica essence / should be ground with the juices of bhṛṅgarāja and sealed firmly in a crucible.

It should be cooked in the puṭa known as cock-fire; when cool of itself, one should extract it. / One should process it twenty-one times with the waters produced from triphalā and bhṛṅga.

With a purified mind, one should lick a measure of one guñjā in the morning with honey and clarified butter. / With a focused mind, one should drink one pala of triphalā decoction afterward.

The increase is sixteen guñjās, to be used for sixteen months. / Freed from wrinkles and grey hair, one lives as long as the moon and the stars.

By consuming this, one becomes worthy of taking lodestone-treated quicksilver. / <Ash of quicksilver that has consumed lodestone> / When the king of quicksilvers has been given an opening, just as the assimilation of mica was done,

even so the assimilation of lodestone essence is performed, O dear one. / One should calcine as before the quicksilver assimilated with lodestone essence.

Such quicksilver ash should be one part, / and lodestone ash four parts; one should grind it with triphalā water,

then seal it in a crucible and bake it in a kukkuṭa puṭa. / Taking it, one should levigate it twenty-one times with triphalā juices.

One should lick the measure of a guñjā with honey and ghee in the morning without indolence; / and cow's milk, one pala in measure, is to be drunk as an after-drink, O queen of the gods.

An increase of sixteen guñjās over a period of sixteen months [is performed]; / one attains divine vision, aerial locomotion, and the rank of Indra.

By consuming this, one becomes worthy of quicksilver [with] mica and lodestone. / When the mercury has been given an opening, one should perform the assimilation of mica as before.

<Ash of quicksilver that has consumed lodestone and mica> / Afterwards, O queen of gods, the wise should use an equal amount of quicksilver; / as before, the assimilation of lodestone essence is equal to [that of] the king of quicksilvers.

If mercury has assimilated lodestone essence and mica essence, / that mercury becomes wingless, devoid of flickering, and auspicious.

That mercury, calcined as before with divine herbs— / one pala [of it], twice that of mica essence ash, and an equal amount

of ash of tourmaline essence; thus the three should be ground three times / in the juice of bhṛṅga and dhātrī fruits, and then baked in a light puṭa.

One should levigate the mercury in the shade with the juices of bhṛṅga and dhātrī fruits; / afterwards, one should lick the measure of a guñjā with triphalā, honey, and ghee.

One should drink one pala of cow's milk; the increase is sixteen guñjās; / by application for sixteen months, one lives as long as the moon and the stars.

By consuming this, one becomes worthy of taking quicksilver [with] gold. / <Ash of quicksilver that has consumed gold> / One should reduce to ash, as before, the king of quicksilvers that has consumed gold.

One pala of such quicksilver ash and two palas of gold [ash] / one should levigate three times in the shade with juices of bhṛṅga and dhātrī fruits.

Sealing it in a container, one should cook it; one should bake it in the puṭa called kukkuṭa. / Then one should levigate it again twenty-one times with the waters of bhṛṅga and dhātrī.

One should lick in the morning the measure of a māṣa of mercury combined with honey and ghee; / and cow's milk is to be drunk as an after-drink; the increase is sixteen māṣas.

Through application for sixteen months, one becomes like a god, endowed with long life. / By the consumption of gold-treated quicksilver, one becomes worthy of mica, gold, and mercury.

<Ash of quicksilver that has consumed gold and mica> / When the mercury has been given an opening, an equal amount of mica essence is first to be assimilated; / then an equal amount of gold is to be assimilated; then one should reduce that quicksilver to ash.

One pala of quicksilver ash as stated before, two palas of gold [ash], / and four palas of mica essence ash one should combine in one place.

It should be ground for a day in indigo-leaf juice and triphalā decoction, O dear one; / sealing it in a container, one should bake it with another twenty cow-dung cakes.

One should levigate it twenty-one times with indigo juice and triphalā decoction; / weighing a guñjā, one should lick it at dawn with honey and ghee, and afterwards drink

the measure of a pala of triphalā decoction; the increase is sixteen guñjās; / by application for sixteen months, one lives as long as the moon and the stars.

By consuming this, one becomes worthy of lodestone, gold, and quicksilver. / <Ash of quicksilver that has consumed gold and lodestone> / When the mercury has an opening, lodestone essence is to be assimilated as stated.

And likewise one should assimilate gold, assimilated equally by the two in equal parts; / according to rule, one should reduce to ash the quicksilver assimilated with lodestone and gold.

One pala of that mercury, two palas of gold ash, / and [four palas of] ash of lodestone essence one should combine according to rule.

Grinding it for a day in the juice of śatāvarī and triphalā, / sealing it in a container and baking it in a kukkuṭa puṭa, taking that mercury,

it is to be levigated twenty-one times with the juices of śatāvarī and triphalā. / One should lick the measure of a guñjā combined with ghee and honey, and afterwards drink;

juice of śatāvarī is to be drunk, a pala in measure, O queen of gods. / The increase is sixteen guñjās over a period of sixteen months.

Freed from wrinkles and gray hair, one lives until the end of a dissolution. / By consuming this, one becomes an enjoyer of gold-, lodestone-, and mica-treated mercury.

<Ash of quicksilver that has consumed gold, lodestone, and mica> / One by one in equal parts mica, lodestone, and gold / one should assimilate in sequence into quicksilver that has been given an opening, O dear one.

The wise person should calcine as before the quicksilver that has assimilated mica and the rest. / Twice as much gold ash as that calcined quicksilver,

an amount of killed lodestone equal to the gold, and killed mica equal to the lodestone; / all this for a day with triphalā decoction and juices of muṇḍī and bhṛṅga

one should grind, seal in a container, and bake in a kukkuṭa puṭa; / taking it, one should levigate it with the waters of triphalā, bhṛṅga, and muṇḍī

twenty-one times in the shade; in the morning, one should lick the measure of a guñjā / with sugar, honey, and ghee; and cow's milk is to be drunk as an after-drink.

The increase is sixteen guñjās over a period of sixteen months; / freed from wrinkles and gray hair, one lives as long as the moon and the stars.

By consuming this, one becomes worthy of taking quicksilver [with] diamond. / <Ash of quicksilver that has consumed diamond> / When the mercury has an opening, one should perform the assimilation of diamond as before.

One should calcine, O goddess, the mercury that has consumed diamond as before; / and twice as much diamond ash as the calcined mercury, O dear one,

is to be ground for a day with the waters of kanyā, bhṛṅga, and triphalā, and in a container / one should bake it in the puṭa called kukkuṭa; taking it then, one should levigate it.

One should levigate it twenty-one times with the waters of kanyā, bhṛṅga, and triphalā; / one should lick the measure of a barleycorn in the morning with honey and ghee, and drink afterwards

cow's milk, one pala in measure; the increase is four guñjās; / by application for sixteen months, one lives as long as the moon and the stars.

By consuming this, one becomes worthy of diamond, quicksilver, and mica. / <Ash of quicksilver that has consumed diamond and mica> / The wise one should calcine the mercury that has consumed mica and diamond.

Twice as much diamond as the calcined mercury, and four times / as much mica ash; bringing all that together, one should grind it

for a day in triphalā decoction with [herbal] juices; one should bake it in a container / after making a light puṭa; afterwards it is to be levigated with the juices of bhṛṅga and triphalā

twenty-one times; one should drink [or ingest] the measure of a māṣa with honey and ghee; / afterwards one pala of cow's milk is to be drunk; the increase has a limit of eight guñjās.

kāntavajrajīrṇarasabhasma>
Equal parts of lodestone and diamond should be digested into mercury endowed with a mouth, O beloved. / A wise man should incinerate that mercury that has digested lodestone and diamond.

<Ash of mercury digested with lodestone and diamond>
Lodestone and diamond are to be digested in equal measure in mercury that has a mouth, O beloved. / A wise person should kill that mercury which has digested lodestone and diamond,

according to the method previously stated regarding lodestone, and [this is] the ash of mercury: / Diamond [is taken at] double the mercury; lodestone at four times the diamond.

It should be ground for a day with fresh juice of palāśa flowers, closed in an earthen container, / and then heated in a kukkuṭa pit. Taking it out, one should then impregnate it;

one should impregnate it twenty-one times with the juice of palāśa flowers. / One should lick a measure of one māṣa mixed with equal parts of honey and clarified butter, and drink milk after it.

An increase [in dose] up to eight guñjās should take place over sixteen months. / Freed from wrinkles and gray hair, he shall live as long as the moon and stars.

Through the use of this, he becomes worthy of mercury [digested with] diamond, lodestone, and mica.
<Ash of mercury digested with lodestone, diamond, and mica>
In mercury that has a mouth, mica, lodestone, and diamond in succession,

in equal amounts, one should digest. Afterwards, one should kill that digested mercury. / As before: diamond equal to the mercury, four times the diamond

in lodestone, and mica essence equal to the lodestone. These one should grind / with the juices of triphalā and bhṛṅgarāja, seal them in an earthen container, and cook

in a light fire pit. Taking it out, one should then impregnate it / twenty-one times with the juices of triphalā and bhṛṅgarāja in the heat of the sun.

A measure of one māṣa, mixed with equal parts of honey and clarified butter, a person of purified mind should lick in the morning; / and cow's milk is to be drunk afterwards. The increase should be up to eight guñjās.

Through sixteen months of application, he shall live as long as the moon and stars. / Through the use of this, he becomes worthy of quicksilver [digested with] gold and diamond.

<Ash of mercury digested with gold and diamond>
In mercury that has a mouth, one should digest equal amounts of gold and diamond. / One should reduce that mercury to ash, O goddess: mercury and diamond in equal amounts,

and killed gold equal to the two together. One should grind [them] with a decoction of triphalā, / place all that in an earthen container, and cook it in the pit called bhūdhara.

Taking it out, one should impregnate it twenty-one times with decoctions of triphalā. / In the morning, one should lick a measure of one māṣa combined with sesame oil, clarified butter, and honey.

Cow's milk should be drunk afterwards, gradually increasing up to eight guñjās. / For the duration of sixteen months [one takes it]; he shall live as long as the moon and stars.

Through the use of this, he becomes worthy of mercury [digested with] mica, gold, and diamond.
<Ash of mercury digested with gold, diamond, and mica>
In mercury that has a mouth, one should digest mica, gold, and diamond,

in portions equal to the mercury. Then one should kill the quicksilver: / killed diamond equal to the mercury, and gold equal to the two of them,

and mica essence equal to all of them, [together with] mercury. Having ground all that for three days with oils / from palāśa seeds, one should enclose it in an earthen container and cook it in a bhūdhara pit.

Twenty-one impregnations of it are done with a decoction of palāśa. / That mercury [in] a measure of one māṣa, and oil of palāśa seeds

in the measure of one karṣa one should drink after it, up to an upper limit of eight guñjās. / Through sixteen months of application, he becomes an eternal adept.

Through the use of this, he becomes worthy of mercury [digested with] lodestone, gold, and diamond.
<Ash of mercury digested with gold, lodestone, and diamond>
When the king of quicksilver has been provided with a mouth, [one takes] lodestone and gold in equal parts;

one should digest them and reduce that [mercury] to ash. And diamond ash equal to that, / killed gold equal to the two of them, and lodestone equal to all of them, O beloved,

having ground in the juice of triphalā and bhṛṅgarāja, one should cook in an earthen container in a bhūdhara pit. / Then, twenty-one impregnations with the juices of bhṛṅgarāja and triphalā [are made].