Rasaratnākara (Rasāyanakhaṇḍa)

Alchemical Kānta Iron Formulations

Take dead kānta iron, black sesame, badarī fruit powder jujube, (22) and kākatundī seed powder; make them equal in quantity. (23) Impregnate it for three days with the juices of śālmalī Bombax ceiba. (24) After soaking for three days with the juice of bhṛṅgarāja, dry it again. (25) Add equal parts of jaggery and make pills of one karṣa size. (26) Drink with juice of rudantī Cressa cretica and milk, along with honey and clarified butter. (27) It destroys death and old age within a year; this is the truth, without doubt. (28) Dead kānta iron, black sesame, and triphalā; grind in equal parts. (29) Stirred with the juices of śālmalī and ketakī Pandanus odorifer in a kānta vessel. (30) Let it stand at night and drink half a pala in the morning; it is a destroyer of death. (31) It conquers old age from the vatsairaka a plant and one lives for three days of Brahmā. (32) Kānta ash, long pepper powder, and the sap of the neem tree; (33) equal parts of triphalā with half a pala of honey and clarified butter. (34) Lick it daily for a month; man lives for a day of Brahmā. (35) Cook pieces of kuṣṭha Saussurea costus in a decoction of triphalā equal to it; (36) dry and grind, then add dead kānta iron equal to it. (37) Lick one karṣa with honey and clarified butter to destroy death and old age within a year. (38) Powder of koraṇṭa leaves, kānta ash, sesame, and jaggery; (39) eat half a pala equal to that to destroy death and old age within a year. (40) Kānta ash equal to sulfur with oil derived from jyotiṣmatī Celastrus paniculatus; (41) lick four niṣka to gain the life of Brahmā. (42) One becomes like Bṛhaspati in speech and certainly lives for years. (43) Three parts of dead sharp-iron and eight parts of pure sulfur; (44) impregnate in the sun for three weeks with the juices of kanyakā Aloe vera. (45) Drink one karṣa with cow's milk to live for three days of Brahmā. (46) Within a year, there is no doubt he becomes divinely radiant and greatly strong. (47) Lick dead kānta iron and pure orpiment in equal amounts with honey and clarified butter. (48) Take one niṣka each for one year to live for three days of Brahmā.