Rasarnava 11
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11.1
The glorious Devī said: / The characteristics and purification of mercury have been heard by me. / I desire to hear about consumption and digestion, O Bhairava.
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The glorious Bhairava said: / When all sins have been destroyed, digestion of mercury is attained. / When that is attained, the very knowledge that causes liberation is attained.
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Digestion reveals liberation for the practitioner, O Devī. / As long as the mercury is not digested, for so long there is no bliss.
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The mortar is the pedestal, O Devī; the lord of mercury is called the linga. / Grinding is salutation to it; the mouthful is prescribed as worship.
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For as many days as the mercury placed in fire is digested and retained, / for that many thousands of yugas one is honored in the world of Śiva.
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He who offers fire to the lord of mercury for even one day, / his sins dissolve; even though acting, he is not tainted.
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Digestion is of two kinds: child digestion and bound digestion. / There, first, O supreme sovereign, child digestion will be described.
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One should first digest mica, and after that, all metallic essences; / then pure pyrite, and immediately after that, gold.
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Having liquefied what is inside the core, one should then melt the external liquefaction; / one should color white with a white substance, and red with a red [substance].
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Having known flowing process and penetration, one should then apply transmutation.
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Oṃ, homage to the immortal metal, to that which arises from the supreme elixir of mercury! Huṃ svāhā!
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For the welfare of all beings, O Lord, by your permission / I desire to perform digestion; accept my mouthful, O Lord!
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"Do it," thus spoken by Śiva, it must surely be grasped by the wise one.
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Hear, O Devī, I will explain the supreme digestion of mica. / Digestion of leaf mica and digestion of metallic essence: it is thus of two kinds.
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Mouthless, with a mouth, and with an infused mouth: / each of these is threefold; and that I will declare in sequence.
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From contact with vaikrānta and diamond, or by the power of divine herbs, / being mouthless, the mercury consumes mica in an instant, O Devī.
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In work on gold, gold itself becomes the mouth; in silver, silver [becomes the mouth].
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The amalgam paste made in a heated mortar, fine mica little by little, / ground with amlavetasa, jambīra, acidic citron, mica, and vitriol, / it grazes, O Devī: this is the digestion with a mouth.
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The three alkalis, the five salts, alum, green vitriol, sulfur, / and pyrite combined with acid, one should digest in a copper vessel.
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Having prepared this divine [mixture] by infusion, a wise man [employs it] / for the purpose of digesting seeds, and especially diamonds.
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O you praised by the gods, lead or tin melted in it / one should quench a hundred times, but not in work for rejuvenating alchemy.
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With this, O Devi, one should imbue every substance for movement. / Imbued in alkali and acid, and with the first menses, mica,
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ground with the juice of the three fruits, water, long pepper, and tumburu, / moves or digests when calcined with the juice of barley-wood-sorrel.
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Śatāvarī, gadā, plantain, meghanādā, punarnavā, / drumstick, and barley-wood-sorrel—imbued in succession with their juices,
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the root of hilamucī, the root of kauverī, / plantain, musalī, drumstick, betel leaf, bāṇa, pīlu,
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alambuṣā, balā, jujube, āsphoṭa, kharamañjarī, / tumburu, or bitter gourd—with the juice of any one of these, / combined with mustard and the three pungents, mica is steamed for three days.
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Combined with green vitriol, alum, rock salt, borax, and alkali, / through the application of the previous infusion, mercury moves in an instant.
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Quickly it becomes an alchemical pellet that grants all perfections.
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Taking fermented grain water, O Devi, combined with the acid group, / having boiled the mica, one should then grind it with snuhī-latex.
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Then [give it] a pigeon-sized calcination fire with wild cow dung.
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With the sap of plantain tubers and the juice of radish roots, / kākamācī, mīnākṣī, apāmārga, and muni,
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castor, fresh ginger, meghanādā, and punarnavā— / with the juices of each one, one should give a single calcination fire.
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Combined with vajrī-latex, cook it in a swing apparatus; / then having dried it in the shade, combined with chickpea acid,
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sal ammoniac, green vitriol, sweet flag, and neem— / one should throw into it a sixteenth part of mica each.
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Placing it in a copper vessel, one should rub it, O virtuous lady; / then, O Devi, nine times one should digest it in an iron vessel.
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Together with mercury, O ruler of gods, chickpea acid, and fermented sour gruel, / boiled over a gentle fire, it is accomplished in half a watch.
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Grinding mica with the juices of somavallī and mixed with black salt, / one should gradually give three calcination fires with haṃsapādī.
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Seven times one should administer it with the juice of somavallī itself; / one should cause it to fall into an earthen pot, joined with mercury.
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One should grind the root of white iṣupuṅkhā with cow milk; / with the paste, smear mercury, and mica placed above it.
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One should heat it with the heat of the sun; mouthless, it swallows [it] in an instant. / Quickly an amalgam paste is formed; here there is no doubt.
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With the juice of tilaparṇī alone one should imbue mica, O dear one; / from grinding, an amalgam paste is formed; here there is no doubt.
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Into the sap of muṇḍī one should repeatedly quench lead; / having immersed mica with that, burn it again and again in a calcination fire.
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With each of the roots of citraka and ginger, / the powder of sulfur and mica should be carefully steeped seven times.
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Imbued with the juice of nāgaśuṇḍī, breast milk, menstrual blood, and the acid of citron, / [and] given that in a sixteenth part, mercury moves in a swing [apparatus].
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Sixty-four-fold, O Devi, or thirty-two-fold, / or sixteen-fold, and also eight-fold, / or four-fold, or twofold, or in equal measure, one should cause [it] to move, O dear one.
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Listen, O Pārvatī, to the supreme digestion of mica's metallic essence.
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Mica's metallic essence combined with an equal part of pyrite's metallic essence / moves thus in the mortar, O Devi; mercury becomes liquefying in the womb.
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Lead-mica, O Devi, tin-mica, wrought-iron-mica, copper-mica, / silver-mica, O Devi, gold-mica—one should digest with the mercurial womb.
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Through the application of the previous infusion, it liquefies in the womb from grinding.
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A sixty-fourth part is the first, a thirty-second part is the second, / a sixteenth part is the third, and an eighth part is the fourth,
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a fourth part is the fifth, and a half part is declared as the sixth; / [such] a morsel is to be given to mercury and mica possessing metallic essence.
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At a sixty-fourth part morsel, mercury becomes stick-shaped; / and like a leech at the second morsel administration, O sovereign of the gods;
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with the third morsel it becomes like crow dung; / with the fourth morsel it becomes like the cream of curds;
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when the fifth morsel has moved, it becomes like fresh butter; / and at the sixth it has the form of an alchemical pellet: this is the characteristic of gradual digestion.
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With red mica quenched and steeped a hundred times in sour gruel, / one should cause it to move within a mortar, together with the scenting of copper.
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Having ground gold and silver, one should place mercury in that mortar; / with green vitriol combined with sour gruel and rock salt, mercury moves.
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Having ground gold and lead, one should add mercury to it; / mica combined with lead and gold becomes liquefied when equally digested; / it quickly moves mica and secondary minerals through its mouth alone.
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Having ground silver and tin, one should add mercury to it; / mica combined with lead and gold becomes liquefied when equally digested; / mica moves through the mouth; it is praised in the silver operation.
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With a mouth or without a mouth, one should carefully cause mica to move.
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Having thus performed the threefold movement [causing] internal liquefaction in mercury, / one should digest and steam the body through the three stages of transformation.
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Smeared with salt, acid, alkali, cow urine, and snuhī-latex, / and tied externally with a cloth, another morsel having been offered, / one should steam it with gentle heat in alkalis, sour gruel, and oils.
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In this order, O ruler of the gods, it is digested in three days. / Mercury, immediately after being taken out of the apparatus and placed in an iron vessel,
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first washed with lukewarm sour gruel and filtered through a cloth, / one should rub in the vessel with a comfortably warm hand until it is finished.
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Pressed through a fourfold cloth, it is free from impurity.
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When a morsel is crushed out by the process of filtration, / mercury becomes stick-shaped and possesses a digested morsel.
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If undigested, one should cook the amalgam paste, steam it, and also grind it; / through the application of cane acid, one should give a morsel when digested.
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With brick, jaggery, burnt wool, mustard, rock salt, and soot, / in sixteenth parts with fermented grain water, mercury is to be ground and steamed,
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for the purpose of purification at every morsel, again and again. / Having digested mica and digested seed, pure, it takes on dyes.
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In this sequence, four morsels are to be introduced in the swing apparatus; / then, by means of the tortoise apparatus, heating and binding [are performed] in succession.
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Having applied alchemical flux above and below by an eighth part, one should digest it. / O dear one, mercury with an equal amount of digested mica becomes capable of hundredfold transmutation.
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With twofold [digested mica] it transmutes a thousandfold, with threefold it transmutes ten-thousandfold, / and with fourfold it becomes transmuting a hundred thousandfold; that mercury is [termed] earth-faring.
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When fivefold has been digested, O goddess, the mercury attains the lifespan of Brahmā; / while with sixfold it attains the lifespan of Viṣṇu, and the mercury becomes capable of ten-millionfold transmutation.
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All impurities of mercury indeed perish / through sixfold digested mica; no doubt need be entertained here.
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O beloved, when sixfold mica has been digested in the king of mercury, / it then devours metals and abandons its own movement.
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Fuming, crackling sound, frog-leaping, / vibrating, and violent shaking: these are the five states of mercury.
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It becomes tawny, gives off no sparks of vapor, / and remains motionless in fire: such is the mark of that which has digested mica.
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Having digested an equal part, it is a child; fourfold, it stands in youth; / having digested sixfold, it is old: each performs its distinct operation.
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The child [transmutes] by coating a leaf; the youth, by application of a paste; / the aged [mercury], when digested or made to flow, transmutes metals.
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Youthful mercury, O goddess, is not competent for rejuvenating alchemy; / mercury standing in youth, O goddess, is capable of protecting the body.
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And mercury in the aged state enters into the body along with metal. / In the absence of mica essence, one should add loadstone essence.
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And in the absence of loadstone, one should add wrought iron. / By this sequential method, one should digest all metallic essences.
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Even a single [dose] joined with gold produces gold in an instant. / Beyond sulfur, there is nothing greater among mercuries or secondary minerals.
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By means of the previously stated apparatus, one should digest / twice eightfold sulfur, or twelvefold, or even sixfold.
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Having taken pyrite essence, one should digest it by a fourth part; / after that, one should liquefy all essences within the interior of mercury.
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There is friendship between gold and fire, and likewise between gold and mercury; / there is enmity between fire and mercury, but friendship exists through the friend of both.
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Agnika, yavacincā, vasuhaṭṭa, and rāgiṇī: / cooked by sweating in a swing apparatus, that is the supreme digestion of gold.
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Palāśa ashes, apāmārga, barley alkali, and sour gruel, / black salt, green vitriol, sea salt, and rock salt,
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mustard, borax, and also sal ammoniac, / camphor, and pyrite: one should make these in equal parts.
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O ruler of the gods, one should coat the crucible with milks of snuhī and arka; / then, having added alchemical flux powder, one should digest gold, O beloved.
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Hear, O goddess! I shall proclaim the digestion named earth-faring.
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One should combine black, yellow, and red mica with copper and wrought iron.
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When the powder of wrought iron with copper is twenty-twofold, O dear one, / one should then combine in succession half that amount of sulfur-treated lead.
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Along with gold, sixteen [parts] are to be given to one [part] of mercury. / When the sulfur-treated lead is digested, the mercury becomes bound; / once the gold is digested, one should color it with half that amount of calcined iron.
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One should kill purified copper, pyrite, cinnabar, and iron with sulfur / by means of calcination fire, and add sixfold gold.
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When fourfold gold seed has been digested in mercury, / one should know its color is fixed; the mercury takes on the luster of gold.
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Placed inside a flowing apparatus, one should cause it to flow along with that [seed]; / having caused it to flow by three parts, one should again digest it therein.
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Digested and caused to flow, and again digested and caused to flow, / mercury becomes capable of ten-millionfold transmutation through the application of the seven chains.
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The earth-faring digestion has been declared; hear now the sky-faring digestion.
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One should cause gems, foremost among which are diamonds, to be left over by mercury; / one should add bitter-gourd seeds by half of that.
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This is declared as the great digestion; the wise practitioner should make a paste, / and place the mercury inside it at the opening of an adamantine crucible.
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Uniting kataka and gold in this manner, one should grind them; / with effort, one should give ruby as a morsel to the mercury.
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Up to elevenfold ruby [is digested] in the mercury; / when the ruby is digested, O ruler of the gods, the mercury takes the form of a linga.
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It should be guarded with effort by the eight guardians of the world; / one should give a sixth part of the lord of mercury to all of them.
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It should be consumed with diligence after bowing to guru and deity, / and having paid homage to all the Siddhas and especially to the deities.
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Fainting and burning of the limbs thereupon arise, there is no doubt of this; / then one beholds oneself arisen, possessing divine radiance and great strength.
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To the resounding blasts of conches and horns, along with Siddhas and Vidyādharas, / he wanders through the worlds at will, assuming any form he desires, mounted on a celestial aerial chariot.
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And where the gods dissolve, there the Siddha dissolves as well.
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Now I shall proclaim another supreme formulation of digestion.
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Mercury, well rubbed, cooked, and thus freed of all impurities, / [is combined] with the extract of young vegetable shoots and the juice of viṣṇukrāntā,
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and equal sulfur macerated with the water of palāśa flowers, / and equal black mica essence, and eightfold calamine.
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One should digest wrought iron, copper, and lead by means of a tortoise apparatus; / afterwards, one should digest gold with an alchemical flux formulation, O Pārvatī.
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Then one should know it to be perfected; one should add two portions of copper; / according to the measure of the count of operations, lead turns into gold.
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Henceforth I shall proclaim the supreme procedure of digestion.
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Having macerated seed powders repeatedly with oil, / one should slowly grind that morsel by a sixteenth part with a finger.
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Then ginger and the rest should be added by a sixteenth part according to the formulation; / having placed it on birch bark, one should then place it into a swing apparatus.
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In a day and a night, O dear one, the mercury devours that seed; / having extracted that mercury, O goddess, one should then grind it thoroughly in a mortar.
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Then, having placed it in an apparatus, heated by strong fire for a day and night, / and extracted from the apparatus, one should triturate it in a heated mortar.
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Having ground it and placed the pellet in mica, one should apply a calcination fire there; / then it quickly falls into the interior; one should digest that with ease.
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Then, having placed it in a swing apparatus together with a wet lump, / on the third day the mercury digests and then devours [further].
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Until it has digested an equal amount in a swing-apparatus, O wise one; / then, with a tortoise-apparatus, [when it has digested] an equal amount, O Pārvatī, / one should digest it with a tortoise [apparatus] using a twelfth part as a morsel.
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And the addition of ginger as before, and the liquefier of the interior; / then, having placed it in [the apparatus], O Devī, the wise one should apply a calcination fire.
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Then [give] a morsel of an eighth part, and the liquefier of the interior as before. / Having placed that mercury inside an elephant-foot yam tuber, / he should calcine it until it is digested, so long as the tuber is not burned.
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A morsel of a fourth part is prescribed for mercury in a crucible. / And as before he should add the alchemical flux and the liquefier of the interior.
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When a fourfold amount has been digested in this way, the mercury becomes powerful. / Then, remaining on the fire, the mercury swallows morsels using an iron rod.
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Then gems are to be digested according to the order to be described:
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Mica, loadstone, and also conch-shell core, / having added primary and secondary minerals along with the great digestion—
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Vajrakanda, vajralatā, meṣaśṛṅgī, amṛtā, loadstone, / seeds of bitter gourd, [and] calcined metals, one should cook.
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All [taken] in equal parts, moistened with peacock's blood, / the wise one should grind until the operation becomes firm.
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A crucible shaped like a wild pulse should be made, along with covers. / One should place the mercury in its middle [and] blow [it] with downward blast.
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First diamond coated with the medicinal herbs must be added right there; / it is absorbed—what doubt is there here?—as in a fierce fire.
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When it has burned in the calcination fire with the diamond, he should grind it with that in a brazier fire, / until he digests an elevenfold quantity of diamond again.
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And well-burned conch-shell core, saturated with juice of citron; / then a pearl is to be added when the diamond is digested in the mercury.
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By this ritual sequence, indeed, it becomes elevenfold. / Pure peacock bile mixed with indigo extract;
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Blue water lilies smeared [with it] are thrown into the mercury. / In the mercury he should prepare intense colors [and] discard faint colors.
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Red things and peacock bile, along with a great gem; / one should coat an excellent gem with that; it will melt within the mercury.
11.136
Turmeric and costus infused with the exudation of palāśa; / along with that very thing he should effect the digestion of topaz.
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When numerous gems [and] yellow topazes are digested, O virtuous one, / the lord of mercury appears, O Devī, with a blue, yellow, and red luster.
11.138
One should coat pure gold leaves with a hundredth part; / one should calcine this with a calcination fire; it becomes like a cochineal insect.
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By contact, this calcined gold transmutes everything, O dear one. / One should carry out the flowing process with a third part of the lord of mercury together with that.
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When it is placed within a crucible, he should digest it again with that same [agent]. / O Devī, it becomes a smoke-transmuter when repeatedly made to flow and digested.
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If the triple-chain is digested by this ritual sequence, / it will transmute, there is no doubt here, mountain, netherworld, and the surface of the earth.
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A light at the sides will appear, but upward it is not seen at all; / one should know that lord of mercury as earth-faring, there is no doubt here.
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Through it, O Devī, one of untiring movement may travel a hundred leagues; / of divine splendor, huge body, divine vision, and great strength;
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Freed from all diseases, he will live as long as the moon and the stars; / his urine and feces transmute all metals.
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With an equal amount of digested diamond, and accompanied by gold, / remaining on the fire it digests metals, [and] mercury attains fixation.
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He should carry out the flowing process with that seed; it transmutes even a thousandfold. / Then he should digest what has been made to flow; it may be applied by smearing or throwing thousands of times.
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He should carry out the flowing process with that seed; he attains transmutation a hundred thousandfold. / By this ritual sequence, the mercury becomes a ten-millionfold transmuter.
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When it digests diamond alone in equal quantity, / the mercury should then be known as bound, unmoving and harmless.
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Mercury remaining on the fire is produced; it swallows the iron rod instantly. / Being blown with a fierce fire, it greedily swallows everything.
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The mercury moves and digests, bestowing lifespan and wealth. / One should blow the mercury staying in a crucible; it does not tremble at all in a fierce fire.
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It digests all gems; [when] bound, it leads to the faculty of sky-faring. / Thus, when an eightfold quantity of metal is digested, binding of mercury takes place.
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Metals, a threefold metallic essence, and likewise a twofold quantity of gold; / the mercury will be a transmuter by sight of its smoke, and will bestow liberation.
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First an eightfold metallic essence of mica, the great mineral, is to be digested; / one should digest diamond and gems with an equal amount [and] with a tenth part of gold.
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And he should digest all the diamond; then this mercury becomes sky-faring; / it whirls clockwise and becomes a ten-millionfold transmuter.
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When an equal amount of lead is digested, the mercury becomes a tenfold transmuter; / when twofold, it becomes a hundredfold transmuter; but when threefold, a thousandfold;
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When fourfold, [it transmutes] ten-thousandfold, O Devī; he should increase it by this order; / through successive increase, he should digest lead therein.
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Devious lead is to be digested therein according to the numerical order; / it attains that proportion, O queen of gods; the mercury becomes a ten-millionfold transmuter.
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The calcined mercury was consumed by Ruru, the lord of the Dānavas, / in which a twelvefold amount of wrought iron had been digested, O queen of the gods.
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Having consumed just one pala, the Dānava, arrogant with strength, / uprooted the world, and even Kailāsa was shattered by him.
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There, having meditated for a moment and seen that done by his magical power, / by Me mercury digested with an equal part of lead was slain with realgar.
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The trident was smeared with that mercury, O daughter of the snowy mountain; / by that trident the Dānava, arrogant with strength, was killed.
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Gold, copper, and wrought iron, diamond and paḍālaka, / rohaṇa, and loadstone, he should digest according to the number of elements [twenty-four].
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With each single one, this bound king of mercury leads to the faculty of sky-faring. / When fragrant lead is liquefied, O Devī, hear the easy digestion:
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First, one should grind purified mercury mixed with turmeric powder / until it turns black; he should wash it with warm fermented rice-gruel.
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Rubbed repeatedly in this way, the fragrant lead undergoes liquefaction.
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In the urine of lead [or] of a calf or of a buffalo, O queen of gods, / having heated the lead repeatedly, one should quench it seven times.
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Having made its leaves pierceable by a thorn, O beautiful one, / he should combine [it] with the measure of a fourth part of sulfur.
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Having spread a layer of lac, immediately thereafter hairs, / above that sulfur powder, and then the lead leaf;
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Spreading out in order sulfur, human hair, and a layer of lac,
placing them upward, one should make a wick with threads;
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one should keep it for ten nights in karañja oil.
One should hold that wick, with its tip lit, with pincers;
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one should let that liquid drop into a vessel containing sauvīra and borax,
and one should place that oil into a glass flask, O beloved.
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Having placed mercury in a cow-teat crucible smeared with realgar,
according to the sixty-fourth part and so on, knowing the relative strength, O Devī,
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and having given the liquefied sulfur and lead, O you praised by gods,
one should place that crucible in a pit filled with cow dung
and give a calcination fire with two handfuls of dry cow dung and chaff.
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If indigestion is suspected, one should give four drops of the juice
of siṃhavallī in the calcination fire as before; thus it should be done day by day.
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From three times the digestion, mercury will have the luster of a jambū fruit.
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Pyrite essence in small quantities, combined with calcined lead,
so long as it is in a crucible, having placed glass below and above,
blasted well twelve times in this way, becomes colored.
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When the seed powder cooked with it, a one-fourth part in mercury,
is ground with chickpea sour gruel, internal liquefaction occurs instantly.
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If internal liquefaction does not take place, O Devī, with two varṇikās of sulfur,
and a paste of raktasindhūdbhava, alarka, borax, and āśugapuṅkhā,
smeared and calcined, the seed becomes liquefied within.
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When a seed equal to half of a quarter part is digested, it performs transmutation
by a tenth, sixteenth, and twenty-second part in turn.
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Having joined brass in threefold amount to silver with silver residues,
and having smeared this silver-bell-metal alloy, one should transmute it with that mercury.
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Hereafter I will describe the procedure of digesting lead and mica:
Having pulverized realgar red as oleander, O Devī,
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one should triturate it twenty times with barley-tamarind juice;
having carefully smeared a leaf of lead with that paste,
one should cook it with a fire of charcoal until it becomes powdered.
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Three parts of calamine and one part of cinnabar,
a quarter of sulfur, and realgar-poison one should grind with citron juice;
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calcined in a crucible smeared with this paste,
one should blast that lead thus seven times; it becomes like gold.
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Single-layer yellow mica, blasted like fire in a crucible
smeared with black pepper, one should throw into drumstick juice;
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by the previous method one should extract that essence, radiant as gold.
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The leaf of colored lead and the essence of yellow mica,
combined with breast milk, glass, soot, guñjā, loadstone, borax,
and blue vitriol—this lead and mica pair becomes paired.
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Or else, with fermented sour gruel, mustard, soot, brick dust, and jaggery,
one should grind mercury for three days and steam it in a swing-apparatus for three days;
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with a paste of punarnavā, meṣaśṛṅgī, and sarpākṣī,
and then black mustard, sea salt, vatsanābha poison, and ground black pepper,
one should steam it again in the swing-apparatus for three days.
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Having introduced lead and mica in an eighth part, O ruler of gods,
there are two parts of realgar and one part of sea salt and black salt,
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half a ṭaṅka [of borax] and a quarter part of poison: the alchemical flux is from an eighth part of the body;
it is to be digested in the turtle-apparatus for three days, and thus digested sixfold.
11.192
Mineral, blue vitriol, lead, copper, wrought iron, bell metal, brass, and gold—
this blue vitriol increases in sequence from the falling out of pyrite essence.
11.193
With citron juice, one should introduce a quarter part of that seed consisting of gold residue
into the king of mercury, and digest it with substances containing gold.
11.194
With pyrite, black salt, realgar, sulfur, green vitriol, and borax,
having placed it in the lotus-apparatus and inserted the pin, O ruler of gods,
11.195
one should blast it gently for three days until the seed is liquefied;
that very mercury, when it has digested an equal amount, is motionless in fire.
11.196
Then with a sixfold seed, flowing process [is done] through gradual application;
one should transmute silver-bell-metal alloy, lead, and copper by a thousandth part.
11.197
With poison, sulfur, pyrite, mica, crow dung, ghanadhvani,
sahadevī, and fire-flame plant paste, mercury penetrates.
11.198
Swooned, calcined mercury, and leech-bond,
fourth is form-bond, and fifth is sheet-bond,
ash-mercury, and solidified mercury: through refining, mercury is sevenfold.
11.199
Mercury takes on the color of lead, having lost its dense fickleness;
that in which this characteristic is seen, they indeed call swooned.
11.200
Wetness, denseness, brilliance, heaviness, and fickleness—
that in which these are not seen, one should know as calcined mercury.
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- Rasārṇava — Sanskrit