Rasarnava 12
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12.1
The auspicious Devī said:
Of what kind is the herb, O Lord, that brings about the auspicious swooning of mercury?
Or by what can mercury become ash? By what is the binding of solidified mercury [achieved]?
12.2
The auspicious Bhairava said:
Hear attentively, O Bhairavī, the secret of mercury-binding,
which is not known to Brahmā, Viṣṇu, the lord of gods, and the others, O you who are worshipped by heroes!
12.3
Between the Gaṅgā and the Yamunā is a demon named Prayoga;
in its vicinity, O fair-hipped woman, mercury is bound in an instant.
12.4
The excellent adept should take leaves of the niśācara plant;
when pressed below, O Devī, the juice becomes excellent.
12.5
The alchemist, having ground mercury with that very [juice] for three days,
should quickly bind it into an alchemical pellet and digest mica therein.
12.6
With that very leaf-juice he should again prepare mica;
triturated seven times with it together with the three pungents,
he should digest mica therein in the Vidyādhara apparatus, O Devī.
12.7
In merely a month, O ruler of the gods, that equal amount is digested in equal [mercury];
when an equal amount is digested, O Devī, the mercury becomes capable of transmuting a hundredfold.
12.8
In the juice of niśācara, O Devī, he should then triturate sulfur;
he should triturate it seven times, indeed, with the juice of dvipadī.
12.9
By smearing it on a leaf of silver, half-and-half [results in] excellent gold;
when an equal amount of sulfur is digested in this, the mercury becomes capable of transmuting a hundredfold.
12.10
Having added that sulfur again, he should remove copper by leaf-coating;
he should then convey that copper in a threefold amount into silver.
12.11
Gold united in half gold will attain equality with the standard;
having directly melted that sulfur again, make it liquid.
12.12
With that he should grind the lord of mercury and cause it to lose its form;
by merely smearing that, O beloved,
he destroys the eighteen skin diseases, hemorrhoids, anal fistula, spider-bite poison, and diseases of the head.
12.13
Orpiment is to be triturated seven times in the juice of niśācara;
with that alone he should kill tin; he should introduce that tin into silver.
12.14
He should digest that silver in mercury; that mercury attains binding;
by merely smearing it, it becomes [effective at] one sixty-fourth.
12.15
At a one sixty-fourth part, he should apply transmutation of copper;
he should introduce copper into silver, and that silver becomes gold;
that silver becomes the best, bestowing dharma, desire, wealth, and liberation.
12.16
One should reduce the flowers of niśācara to a fine powder;
one should triturate ten palas of the powder with the juices of myrobalan.
12.17
Having stirred it with ghee and honey, one should place it in a new vessel;
it is to be kept in a heap of grain for thrice seven days, O ruler of gods.
12.18
By merely eating that, one is freed from wrinkles and gray hair.
12.19
One should lick the fine powder of the bark together with honey;
by a practice of half a month, O beloved, this becomes visible to the eyes.
12.20
By his urine and feces, copper becomes gold;
by a practice of merely a month, lead becomes gold.
12.21
Or the oil of its fruit should be extracted in the apparatus named Pātāla;
with that oil, O ruler of the gods, the wise man should contract mercury.
12.22
From that moment, O Devī, the great mercury becomes bound on a cloth.
12.23
A pungent bracelet should be made on the mercurial linga, O fair-faced woman;
having contracted it, a most wondrous calcination should be performed with it.
12.24
Copper cast seven times into the juice of niśācara
becomes free of blackness thereby and shines like gold.
12.25
Mixed equally with that silver, sprinkled and cast with it,
it transmutes mercury in a one-tenth part; ten [parts] turn yellow with a hundred,
12.26
a hundred transmutes a hundred thousand, a thousand transmutes ten million;
a one-tenth part becomes a transmuter of ten million, and with an equal part it transmutes ten million.
12.27
I shall explain another binding of mercury that is very difficult to obtain.
12.28
The herb that is mother of the three worlds, the foremost of herbs:
by mere contact with it, mercury remains bound.
12.29
Ground for a week with the juice of that great herb,
by transmutation at a one-hundredth part alone, it produces divine gold.
12.30
From grinding for two weeks in its juice, O woman of excellent complexion,
the mercury directly transfigures a hundred thousandfold, [turning] the eight metals into gold.
12.31
In thrice seven days, O ruler of the gods, it transmutes a million;
and in the fourth week, the great mercury transmutes ten million.
12.32
Steamed, heated, and rubbed with the juice of the great herb,
it gives the accomplishment of sky-faring, his movement unobstructed.
12.33
He may make love to a thousand passionate women within a day,
and with shadow lost and invisible, he roams the three worlds through mercury.
12.34
By the juice of the great herb alone, the revival of the dead takes place;
with this, kill mercury and make it five-staged, O beloved.
12.35
One should administer nasal drops to a dead man and rub his hands and feet;
life indeed will enter him, even though dead, O fair-faced woman.
12.36
I shall explain another binding of mercury that is very difficult to obtain:
by the juice of narasāra alone, mercury is bound in an instant.
12.37
Having added the juice of narasāra along with dvipadī pollen,
at the end of a day it attains binding and colors all metals.
12.38
When sixfold lead is digested with the juice of narasāra alone,
one should triturate that realgar in silver or in copper, O Devī.
12.39
It becomes devoid of smell; he should kill that rejuvenating substance;
together with dvipadī pollen, the lead becomes devoid of metallic essence.
12.40
When sixfold lead is digested with the juice of narasāra alone
in silver or in copper, O Devī, the mercury becomes capable of transmuting ten millionfold.
12.41
Triturations are made separately seven times in the juice of narasāra and breast-milk;
he should feed a morsel to the lord of mercury in the apparatus called Vidyādhara.
12.42
Mica is digested, O Devī, and [becomes] mouthless, O fair-faced woman;
with the juice of narasāra alone and with the juice of kīṭamārī,
he should liquefy mica, O Devī, wrought iron, and lead.
12.43
With the juice of narasāra alone and with the juice of hanūmatī, / divine gold is produced by quenching, O beloved of Bhāskara.
12.44
Having added madder and red sandalwood to narasāra juice, / one should then grind it in its own juice [and] quench lead [in it], O Devī.
12.45
Instantly, [it becomes] divine gold when quenched seven times. / But that lead, rubbed with copper, O Devī, [becomes] threefold, O beloved.
12.46
That copper resembles gold; combined with a fifth part of silver, / [and] endowed with an eighth part of gold, it is a medicine in operations with gold.
12.47
Cinnabar is to be macerated seven times in the juice of narasāra; / with that alone one should destroy wrought iron; one should declare its state of being turned to ash.
12.48
That ash, however, ground with copper, by that it yields threefold.
12.49
That copper resembles gold; combined with an eighth part of silver, / and with silver and gold in equal parts, it becomes twice as much brass.
12.50-
Calamine should be macerated seven times in the liquid of sal ammoniac.
That mercury, and calamine, wrought iron, and lead
one should grind together with that very liquid of sal ammoniac:
instantly fixation of the mercury and calamine takes place.
12.51
One should color wrought iron, lead, and copper with calamine; / all becomes gold having the luster of a pumpkin flower.
12.52
Again, I shall declare another binding of mercury that is very difficult to obtain.
12.53
There is a plant named kaṅkālakhecarī, O Supreme Lady; / having taken its oil, combined with māghakhecarī, / one should macerate it for one day in a copper vessel.
12.54
When the second day has arrived, one should kill a diamond gem; / one should blow it in a fire until it has the brilliance of blazing fire.
12.55
One should quench the diamond gem in the oil of kaṅkālakhecarī; / quenched ten times, it indeed assumes the form of ash.
12.56
Make that digested seed of gold equal to that ash; / having added three parts of borax, one should blow it placed in a blind crucible; / instantly the pair—the diamond gem and gold—unite.
12.57
If it digests silver and gold in equal measure, O woman of fair hips, / mercury transmuting ten millionfold, O Devī, transmutes the eight metals.
12.58
Again, I shall declare another binding of mercury that is very difficult to obtain.
12.59
A plant with seeds is to be taken, a certain bushy creeper, O beloved; / the second, O Devī, is named mantrasiṃhāsanī khecarī; / one should collect its oil in a copper vessel using the pātālayantra.
12.60
Into that oil one should throw the juice of khecarī; / one should place it within the medinīyantra, O fair-faced woman.
12.61
With the first plant, O Devī, that mica on the base of the medinī[yantra], / having then given the morsel of mercury, make a pellet by grinding.
12.62
Having tied it into a bundle with it, one should digest mica with it; / when an equal [amount of] mica is digested, mercury remains bound.
12.63
It does not perish when blown with the blasts of a bellows; / the appearance of that which has digested an equal [part] becomes like crow’s dung.
12.64
When a double portion of mica is digested, it masters the eight metals.
12.65
Again, I shall declare another binding of mercury that is very difficult to obtain.
12.66
Arising from Śiva's body is the plant turasiṃhanī; / it digests sulfur, and it also digests orpiment.
12.67
It digests gold, and it binds the lord of mercury; / it digests coral, and likewise it liquefies mica; / and it kills diamond, and causes every metallic essence to precipitate.
12.68
It digests all metals and also cooks metallic essences; / placed in the juice of harīṃdarī inside a cow's horn, O fair-faced woman, / it must be kept in a heap of grain; mercury remains calcined.
12.69
With the juice of this divine plant alone, the lord of mercury, O goddess praised by gods, / when an equal [part of] gold is digested, transmutes one hundred million [times].
12.70
At a fifth, it is a hundred billion; at a sixfold, it transmutes by touch; / at a seventh, it transmutes by its vapor; and at an eighth, by a glance; / at a ninth, it transmutes by sound; beyond this, nothing exists.
12.71
Fools wander about like beasts, deprived of the family plants; / and from the juices of common grass plants, accomplishment does not arise at all.
12.72
Therefore, by every effort, the family plant is to be known.
12.73
Sixty-four divine plants are established within the family; / those fools do not know them, deluded by divine delusion.
12.74
Non-divine grass plants, however, grow in mountain caves.
12.75
Mercury is never bound in the juice of a grass plant; / and it is not imperishable, O woman of fair hips, [and] does not stand within fire.
12.76
It does not become a solidified mercury, nor ash, nor does it produce wealth; / what wealth could that produce which does not stand when blown?
12.77
It does not stand in a leaf, in cooking, in a mat, in cutting, [nor] in gold; / and that mercury does not effect transmutation beyond a hundredfold, O beloved.
12.78
As long as it is not truly bound, that gold is sold; / one should not give it for dharma, wealth, pleasure, or liberation, O beloved.
12.79
The auspicious Devī said: / Having reached a lifeless state, how does mercury impart life? / And by means of a lifeless thing, how does a lifeless thing live, O Śaṃkara?
12.80
The auspicious Bhairava said: / When the lord of mercury is swooned by a divine plant, O Devī, / then mercury becomes devoid of blackness, O Pārvatī.
12.81
Mercury devoid of blackness takes away the death of another; / and it pacifies the impurity of the eight metals in an instant.
12.82
Who indeed would call mercury that has attained the great swoon calcined? / By the juice of a divine plant alone it becomes deprived of consciousness.
12.83
Mercury, composed of the five elements, remains truly Sadāśiva.
12.84
Again, I shall declare another binding of mercury, O Lady.
12.85
Diamond is killed by kṣmāpāla, and gold by this very [agent]; / one should indeed bind diamond ash and gold ash together.
12.86
It is to be digested in the juice of niśācara; one should digest it with human soul; / the divine plant gajāri should kill that mercury, O auspicious lady.
12.87
He by whom that mercury is consumed is himself Sadāśiva visibly; / when one tolaka is consumed, a man becomes able to transmute by touch.
12.88
The king of mercury is transmuted from the sweat of his body; / and from his sweat as well as urine, the eight metals become gold.
12.89
That best of practitioners lives a hundred thousand years; / Prajāpati endowed with black brilliance binds mercury in an instant.
12.90
From the touch of gajāri, O Devī, and by kṣmāpāla it is bound.
12.91
Mica macerated with the juice of vajravallī alone, O beloved, / one should digest in a sand bath; instantly it becomes solidified mercury.
12.92
Having united one māṣa of calcined pellet and one māṣa of gold pellet, / and having ground them with the acid of citron for three days, / one should coat one karṣa of lead leaves with the mercury paste.
12.93
And one should envelop that ball with vṛścikālī and then coat it. / O Devī, one should kill the lead; it will become like a cochineal insect.
12.94
One should coat one karṣa of silver leaves with calcined lead, / and then envelop that coated leaf with vṛścikālī.
12.95
That silver is calcined, O Devī, resembling the red of vermilion. / With a thousandth part of that very [substance], one should effect the transmutation of copper.
12.96
Divine gold is produced, an ornament suitable for the gods.
12.97
Possessed of milky sap, many fruits, and knotted joints, O Pārvatī, / known by the name caṭulaparṇī, it is praised in the binding of mercury.
12.98
In the juice of the bulb of ekavīrā, mercury placed in a blind crucible / should be blown with breaths from the mouth; once bound, it is praised for ingestion.
12.99
The bulb of raktakañcukī, ground with a woman's breast-milk, / in a crucible according to the previous method, accomplishes the binding of mercury.
12.100
Mercury combined with the seed of vṛścikāpattrī and woman's milk / the alchemist should blow as before for the purpose of ingestion.
12.101
Taking a vajrakanda bulb, one should throw it into the midst of mercury; / applying the calcination fire named gajendra seven times, one should lead it to a bound state.
12.102
The wise one should ingest that mercury; after six months he will become immortal.
12.103
Taking a lāṅgalī bulb and a karkoṭī bulb, / placing mercury in their midst, one should foment and grind it again.
12.104
It is calcined, of this there is no doubt, when blown with intense fire. / Placing the mercury inside śukacañcu, one should then subject it to calcination fire and blow it.
12.105
This transmuter at a hundredth part will bring about bodily perfection.
12.106
One should throw mercury with the juice of haṃsapādī into the cavity of a śūkakanda bulb; / one should give it a gajendra calcination fire; it is calcined, of this there is no doubt.
12.107
Taking haṃsāṅghri and śukatuṇḍī, one should grind mercury; / having placed it inside krauñcapāda, one should then give it three calcination fires.
12.108
It is calcined, of this there is no doubt; the great mercury becomes capable of transmuting a hundred thousandfold.
12.109
Hear, O beloved, of the divine plant known as tṛṇajyotis: / it constantly blazes at night, it does not burn by day, O Pārvatī; / milk thrown at its root becomes red, O beloved.
12.110
With the root-juice of that, sulfur, and mica, ground with the acid of citron, / a copper leaf smeared [with it] becomes gold after three calcination fires.
12.111
The king of mercury, joined with powder of its root, O sovereign of the gods, / [when] rubbed in citron juice, consumes mica instantly.
12.112
Now I shall declare uccaṭī, which brings about the binding of mercury, O beloved: / it has only a single stalk, and hair covers it.
12.113
At its tip is a flower resembling a parrot's beak; / its leaves, O ruler of gods, resemble a parrot's plumage; / its bulb has the shape of costus, and its milky sap resembles vermilion.
12.114
It exudes water [like] beeswax; taking that, O Pārvatī, / one should transmute all metals, and they become gold.
12.115
One should grind mercury, orpiment, and blue vitriol with the juices of uccaṭī; / heated in the sun, mercury is calcined through the power of the divine plant.
12.116
One may transmute the seven metals with a hundred thousandth part, O fair-faced woman.
12.117
Now I shall declare the rite of red snuhī, O celestial beauty: / with the milky sap of snuhī, one should coat copper leaves.
12.118
One should heat it again with the milky sap seven times, O fair-faced woman, / until, when melted, it becomes of equal luster to Jāmbūnada gold.
12.119-
Then, one should cook [them] with sesame oil for three days;
likewise, sheets of copper will become transmuted into gold.
Mercury, red snuhī latex, realgar, sulfur, mica,
and cinnabar will transmute base metals at a thousandth part.
12.120
Taking snuhī milk, turmeric, and gold, both of them, / realgar and sulfur powder, one should grind everything together.
12.121
By this very method one purifies turmeric and gold; / making a pill of it, one transmutes lead instantly.
12.122
Now hear the procedure for sthalapadminī, the divine plant:
12.123
It resembles a lotus in its leaves, and likewise in its flowers; / and upon breaking, its milky sap is a very splendid red color.
12.124
Stepping upon it with the left foot, one can see the vault of the sky; / one can see the sphere of planets and lunar mansions, filled with stars, / from a distance of a hundred thousand leagues, O Devī; that is to be known as sthalapadminī.
12.125
Taking its five parts, combined with mercury and sulfur, / combined with realgar and orpiment, and combined with pyrite,
12.126
one should grind it for seven nights, and with it transmute copper; / with a thousandth part, O ruler of gods, it is transmuted into gold.
12.127
Taking its five parts according to the previously stated method, O beloved, / one should digest the king of mercury, and blow it placed in a blind crucible.
12.128
It is calcined inside the crucible through contraction, there is no doubt; / with it alone, one may transmute all metals at a thousandth part.
12.129
Now I shall declare the procedure for kumudinī, O beloved: / splitting it upon a Kāśmīra stone, one should do it on the full moon day.
12.130
Taking its five parts, one should impregnate realgar; / placing it in an earthen bowl, one should impregnate it again and again.
12.131
Combine lead melted in an earthen bowl with its paste; / it certainly becomes gold equal to the liquid of Kāśmīra [saffron].
12.132
I shall explain in brief how citraka is to be gathered:
12.133
Citraka is to be known as threefold: red and black in rejuvenating alchemy, / and white in subduing disease—the best, the middling, and the least.
12.134
The wise one should not uproot black, red, or white in the winter season.
12.135
Having uprooted black citraka that has not been smelled by cattle, O sovereign lady, / when placed in the middle of milk, the milk instantly turns black in color.
12.136
One should grind mercury with powder of its five parts, / and blow it in a blind crucible; it becomes solidified mercury instantly.
12.137
Wearing red garments, adorned with red garlands and unguents, / on the fifth day of the dark fortnight, with cooked red rice, / having offered an oblation, O great Devī, one should uproot red citraka.
12.138
With powder of red citraka, through three successive heatings, / tin is freed from all defects and reaches fixation instantly.
12.139
Through its root, mercury, and in acid with the application of kaṅguṇī oil, / twenty-one times, copper will become purified.
12.140
Smeared with oil of red citraka and bhallātaka, by means of a calcination fire, / a leaf of silver and copper, O ruler of gods, becomes splendid gold.
12.141
Lord of mercury [treated with] nāginī tuber, combined with red citraka,
by the measure of a leaf-coating turns silver and copper into gold.
12.142
Even mercury combined with red citraka becomes an all-bestower.
12.143
I shall explain the procedure of jyotiṣmatī oil; listen, Pārvatī!
12.144
The creeper named jyotiṣmatī is that which resembles gold,
abounding in spreading vines, auspicious, bearing gold-colored fruits.
12.145
Taking its excellent seeds during the first fortnight of Āṣāḍha,
decocting them like sesame, then with hands or feet
collecting its oil, one should pour it into a copper pot.
12.146
One should heat the pot placed in the ground gradually from above with a chaff fire;
when six months have elapsed, that pot becomes gold.
12.147
Having made that [pot] of gold, [and] mixed the oil with pyrite,
one should pour it in as an addition; that gold becomes equal to copper.
12.148
And likewise it would transmute a hundredfold: an unexcelled jewel of knowledge.
12.149
I shall proclaim dagdhārohā, which binds mercury, O beloved;
it should be understood as accomplishing all works and aims in transmutation by touch.
12.150
Cut by a blade, O Great Goddess, or burned by fire,
the celestial great medicinal plant, burned or cut, sprouts again in an instant.
12.151
Red, yellow, white, and black flowers are produced from it;
one should observe its well-generated leaves to be like those of a chickpea.
12.152
It is found on the bank of the Gomatī, at the Gaṅgā, on Mount Arbuda,
and is seen to the south of Ujjayinī at the edges of the forest.
12.153
A wise man should take the divine tuber juice of that [plant], marked with black streaks,
combine it equally with betel leaf, and make a pill.
12.154
Among all melted metals placed within fire,
after transmuting a thousand[fold], it makes gold in an instant.
12.155
Likewise, mercury combined with loadstone, gold, and mica dies;
it produces celestial gold, an ornament fit for the ornaments of the gods.
12.156
Hear, O Goddess, about the divine medicinal plant known as kaṭutumbī.
12.157
Having gathered its seeds, one should make fine powders.
12.158
They must be macerated twenty-one times with the juice of myrobalan,
together with milk and combined with dry ginger.
12.159
Placing the seed in an apparatus, the wise man, having collected the oil,
should cause mercury to swoon with it and grind it with cakramarda.
12.160
Ox bile, peacock bile, combined with alum and green vitriol,
and these equal to silver; the mercury is equal to all of them.
12.161
It should be placed in a ram's horn continuously for one month;
sprinkled by an iron rod, it transmutes all metals.
12.162-
Sulfur macerated twenty-one times with an iron pestle,
joined with this very iron and combined with lime juice,
endowed with seed, accompanied by mercury, placed in a blind crucible,
[and] kept underground for one month, turns silver into gold.
12.163
One should combine one part of the leaf, five parts of silver,
five parts of copper, and one part of the seed.
12.164
These make twelve parts; one should retain all that in the earth,
and one should make the quenching of this place with an earthen rod.
12.165
At the end of twenty-five days, the best gold is produced.
12.166
I shall explain the procedure of kṣīrakanda, supreme, producing all accomplishments;
it is of four colors, and among them the red tuber is praised.
12.167
When broken, this flows with milk that is red-colored and very beautiful.
12.168
Adorned with seven smooth, golden-radiant leaves
resembling snuhī, produced by the rumbling of thunderclouds,
it brings about the binding of the king of mercury and subdues all metallic essences.
12.169
Taking its milk, the wise man should quench silver [in it],
and blow it with a dhava-wood fire; beautiful gold is produced.
12.170
The wise man should triturate mercury with the extracts of tamarind leaves,
joined with a little copper dust; binding of mercury will occur.
12.171
When thrown into water, the pellet becomes like a diamond.
12.172
Pressing the excellent juice of the teak tree, O Goddess of the gods,
combined with red sandalwood, one should digest all metals.
12.173
One should apply it to iron with the sulfurous smell of sulfur;
all metals unite and melt like water.
12.174
Sulfur, calamine, pyrite, mercury, red sandalwood,
combined with the juice of rudantī, turn silver into gold.
12.175
One should filter the exudate of the teak tree onto its leaf;
one should triturate powder of drumstick root with that juice.
12.176
Coating sheets of copper, placing them in a calcination fire, one should cook them;
that, melted, becomes divine gold endowed with [auspicious] marks.
12.177
The wise man should gather fully ripened fruits of the teak tree;
joined with their juice, he should macerate it for seven nights.
12.178
Endowed with that juice, and mixed likewise with madder,
he should coat sheets of silver; blown [with fire], it becomes gold.
12.179
Next, I shall explain the procedure of the great medicinal plant devadālī;
the white one is for destroying disease, while the black and yellow are for rejuvenating alchemy.
12.180
On the full moon, on the thirteenth [lunar day], when the sun is seized by Rāhu,
or on the fifth of the dark fortnight, one should dig this up according to rule.
12.181
Devadālī fruit, O Goddess, and viṣṇukrāntā swiftly cause mercury
to swoon and bind it, and turn copper into gold.
12.182
Devadālī fruit and root, and juice of īśvarī,
made by grinding with water, solidifies tin in an instant.
12.183
Hereafter I shall proclaim the procedure of white guñjā, O beloved.
12.184
On the fourteenth or the eighth of the dark fortnight, O venerated of the gods,
placing earth in a skull, one should sprinkle it with water.
12.185
One should sow the seeds of white guñjā under an auspicious lunar mansion;
and one should make the collection with the mantra that is about to be spoken:
12.185.p1
"Obeisance to the Blessed One, O white creeper, O dweller on the white mountain, perform, perform all works, O unhindered one! Obeisance, obeisance, svāhā!"
12.186
Success is declared by this mantra, not otherwise;
and for six months one should protect the creeper purified by mantra.
12.187
Taking pure copper placed within a crucible,
in the quantity of fifteen palas, with half a karṣa of white guñjā;
12.188
Together, silver free of its sulfurous odor is produced;
combined with yellow brass and guñjā powder together,
it becomes beautiful gold, O Goddess, an ornament of the gods.
12.189
I shall explain the binding of mercury by moon-water, O Goddess of the gods.
12.190
On the full moon of the bright fortnight, upon seeing the full lunar orb,
moon-waters emerge in many streams, bursting forth from the earth.
12.191
Some [waters] have the color of earth, but in taste are salty; / some are like the moon, and some have the luster of the sky. / They increase with the waxing of the moon, but decrease with its waning.
12.192
Having observed the moon-water, the practitioner, especially on the full-moon day, / [sees that] breaking through the earth it emerges, and it grows with the waxing of the moon.
12.193
Having first performed the protection of the site, having worshipped the god Śaṅkara, / and having venerated that site on the fourteenth [lunar day], the wise man, / having fasted for a day and night, should offer an oblation there.
12.194
And on the night of the full moon, having approached its vicinity, / having collected that moon-water accompanied by mantras and thoroughly consecrated, / having mixed it with honey and ghee, he should drink it with an attentive mind.
12.195
Just by drinking it, a faint occurs instantly. / Then, when moonrise is seen, one should give him milk. / By a seven-night application, he becomes spotless like the moon.
12.196
Through twenty-one nights, he will live for three days of Brahmā. / Through a one-month application, that man attains the lifespan of Brahmā.
12.197
With moon-water, one should grind mica, mercury, and gold. / Placed inside a crucible and blown, it instantly becomes a pill.
12.198
And this, merely by touch, transmutes the eight metals.
12.199
With that liquid, mercury should be macerated and digested equally with diamond: / [it transmutes] at a sixty-fourth part in the body [of metal], and at a thousandfold when doubled.
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- Rasārṇava — Sanskrit