Procedures with mica and tikshna iron

Yellow mica, patalika and patuvajraka are ground with rock salt, borax and the three pungents in punarnava juice, cooked in kanji, melted in a crucible, ground with gold powder and mixed once with mercury, then ground by the dvandvamelaka method, washed, strained and steamed with vida. Tikshna iron powder with svarnamakshika is purified in kanji and by quenching in cow urine, buttermilk, sesame oil, dviraja and indrayava decoction, mixed with gold and six parts of svarnamakshika and fed little by little to mercury by garbhadruti with more makshika, gold and bija; the clear, soft mercury is sealed in a crucible and buried a span deep under a daily fire for a month, then worshipped, ground with meghanada juice and smeared on pure copper and silver sheets, which the commentary says can make gold.