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Rh of the colour of stones. What wonder is it that Rasaka mixed with [certain organic matters] and roasted three times with copper converts the latter into gold?"

Rasaka, mixed with wool, lac, T. chebula and borax and roasted in a covered crucible, yields an essence of the appearance of tin: of this there is no doubt."

Sasyaka.

[These couplets have been borrowed word for word by Vide Bk. ii; hence repetition is unnecessary.]

Saurāshtri, alum, distillation of: (See under, which has also borrowed this description verbatim.)

"O goddess! listen now to what I say about the metals.