"Having attained to a mercurial body, and therewith identified."
The meaning of this, as explicated by Parameśvara to Parameśvarí, is as follows:—
"By the method of works is attained, O supreme of goddesses, the preservation of the body;
"And the method of works is said to be twofold, mercury and air,
"Mercury and air swooning carry off diseases, dead they restore to life,
"Bound they give the power of flying about."
The swooning state of mercury is thus described—
"They say quicksilver to be swooning when it is perceived, as characterised thus—
"Of various colours, and free from excessive volatility.
"A man should regard that quicksilver as dead, in which the following marks are seen—