Rasārṇavakalpa (English critical edition)

By the application of this for one month, one attains the state of a khecara A supernatural state of being able to move through the air or sky; a sky-traveler.. (386)

The wise practitioner should take a piece of nimwood Azadirachta indica and make it hollow.

Place orpiment inside it, and bury the wood in a cow pen. (387)

After a month, take it out and grind it together with mercury.

Consume this daily with betel leaf for one month. (388)

Within twenty-one days, it removes eighteen types of leprosy.

One becomes free from wrinkles and gray hair, and immune to old age and disease. (389)

One gains the brilliance of the rising sun and attains the state of a sky-traveler (khecara).

Place orpiment and rice grains into a pottery vessel with a lid. (390)

Wrap it carefully with buffalo dung.

Cook the orpiment until the fire odor disappears. (391)

Make a pill from that paste, adding the juice of a citron (bījapūra).

Combine it with mercury and grind it into a single mass. (392)

Grind it in a mortar for four days until it becomes a fine, smooth paste.

Then, for the next four days, lick the paste prepared with the extract of citron. (393)

Know, O wise one, that when it is bound to one-eighth of its weight of loadstone (kānta), it is fixed.

Sprinkled with liquor (surā), it turns silver into a beautiful substance. (394)

The wise practitioner should consume orpiment and mercury, mixed with citron juice, in betel leaves for one uninterrupted month. (395)

The yellow mixture, when prepared, should be applied to silver sheets.

By the application of this process three times, using the puṭapāka A heating process where substances are enclosed and cooked in a pit or oven. method, it becomes gold. (396)

Grind it daily with the juice of betel leaves.

Grind the orpiment and mercury together with the juice of the citron. (397)

By using this three times a day, one can create a lucky hour.

When heated via puṭapāka and turned yellow, it transforms silver into gold. (398)

Combine orpiment and mercury and grind them together.

Place it in a heap of grain for a month, so it can withstand fire. (399)

Once taken out and the mouth of the vessel is opened, it immediately leads to the state of a sky-traveler.

Whoever cooks orpiment using the dung of cows and buffaloes (400)

And adds curd and milk, grinding it in an iron vessel—

After placing the orpiment with the juice of surasā Ocimum sanctum, or Holy Basil back into a pottery vessel, (401)

And heating it over a fire of goat dung mixed with the dung of five buffaloes,

Cook the orpiment until the fire odor disappears. (402)

Take it out, and once again bind it with the juice of citron.

Combine it with mercury, make it into a single mass, and grind it. (403)

Grind it in a mortar for three days until it becomes a fine, smooth paste.

With one-eighth of that substance, one may transmute copper (śulba). (404)

Sprinkled with liquor (surā), the copper turns into silver.

The wise practitioner should cook mercury bound with orpiment in citron juice. (405)

The wise one should consume one prastha A traditional unit of measure, roughly equivalent to 640 grams. mixed with betel leaf for one month.

Whether it is lead or copper, it turns into divine gold through the puṭa method, without doubt. (406)

Observing the divine tree, which stands in the form of a diamond,

one should take the red sap as prescribed, using a bitter gourd (kaṭutumbikā). (407)

Place mercury that has been purified by loadstone and infused with one-quarter part of gold there.

The wise should grind this with the red sap for three ghaṭikās One ghaṭikā is approximately 24 minutes; three equals 72 minutes.. (408)