Rasārṇavakalpa (English critical edition) (1976) - Page 14

Place the mercury inside a closed crucible with the juice of the ekavīra-kanda (root).

Heat it with ūṣaṇa (pepper) oil; it is recommended for ingestion. (153)

Grind the root of the raktakañcukī with a woman’s breast milk.

Perform the binding of the mercury in the crucible using the previous method. (154)

Mix the seeds of vṛścikapatrikā with a woman’s breast milk.

Heat it as before; for an alchemist to eat, it is excellent. (155)

Take the vajra-kanda (adamantine root) and place it into the mercury.

Perform the gajendra-puṭa (the elephant-heating process) and bring it to a bound state seven times. (156)

Eat that mercury, O mother; one becomes immortal within six months.

By using it for a year, one lives as long as the moon and stars endure. (157)

Taking the lāṅgalī-kanda (Gloriosa superba root) and the karkoṭī-kanda root,

Place the mercury inside them and steam it with the mudga-reṇu (green gram pulse). (158)

It is sustained there, no doubt; heat it with an intense fire.

The mercury, held in a parrot's beak [apparatus], should be put in a puṭa (heating chamber) and then heated. (159)

This [preparation] performs a hundred-fold transmutation and bestows physical perfection (dehasiddhi).

By using it for six months, a man gains a diamond-like body. (160)

Place the mercury, [treated with] haṃsapadī juice, inside a śuka-kanda (parrot-root).

Perform the gajendra heating; it is sustained, there is no doubt. (161)

Grind the mercury with the juice of haṃsāṅghri and śuka-cañcu.

Place it inside the krauñcapāda (heron-foot herb) and apply three heatings. (162)

There is no doubt it is sustained, and the mercury becomes a hundred-thousand-fold transmuter.

O beloved, hear of the divine herb known as tṛṇajyoti (grass-light). (163)

By smelling the scent of the root juice of that, and mixing it with the sour juice of the citron (mātuluṅga),

The copper sheet, when smeared with it, becomes gold after three heatings. (164)