The Jewel Mine of Mercury

With the roots of Śrīkoṭa, one should grind in a mortar. 4

With goat's milk, one should process Hingu asafoetida seven times with effort, drying them again and again. With a decoction of the five parts of Kākoḍumbara Ficus hispida, in a sixteenth part, one should make the Hingu again, and with that mercury, sprinkled, in a sealed crucible, cook in a Bhūdhara puṭa. With eight yavas barley grains/measure, one should give the Hingu in the puṭa. One should powder the seeds of Apāmārga Achyranthes aspera and Eraṇḍa castor, and give that powder to the mercury in the crucible, above and below. Having sealed it, afterward, with four light puṭas, it becomes copper-colored ash. With the juice of Kaṭutumbī bitter gourd, the mixture is given. It dies is fixed in seven puṭas. When killed, it is sweated by cow-dung fire. Mercury and sulfur, equal parts, for the end of the day, one should seal. Heat in a Bhūdhara apparatus; at the end of the day, it becomes dead. Mercury and Dhānyābhra paddy-mica, equal parts, grind with the juice of Mārka Eclipta prostrata for one day. With that paste, make a wick, and smear it with oils. Again and again, heat in earthen vessels. ...Having made the ash, grind again with Mārka, perform distillation in an apparatus, and in one day it becomes dead. Grind the mercury with the oil of Kṛṣṇadhūttura black datura for yāmas. Heat in the apparatus for one day... it becomes dead mercury; one should use it in the experiments. Two palas measure of purified mercury and half of that in purified sulfur, grind with the juice of Mārka for one day continuously. Heat in the Bhūdhara apparatus; in one day, it will be killed. 6 Now, the incineration of mercury, describing the Vajra-muṣā diamond crucible: two parts of Nuṣadagdha calcined/burnt matter, one part of anthill clay, one part of iron slag, one part of white stone...