Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

SR No.: 006907
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 434
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 7 MB

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SIXTH CHAPTER
(1) First put zinc in tamarind-salt and press, wash it seven times, and purify it. Next make a cup of pai. 5 (out of zinc). Put mercury tā 1 into that thorn-piercing cup. Then fill up the juice of yellow Dodonaea viscosa. (Bandali) up to its brim and place or put a lid over it. Give dipāgni below it (cup). Go on giving 2 srs. of juice (of yellow Bandāli). Keep the juice up to the brim. After its cooking, when the brim bursts out, then go on mixing the pieces into the cup. When all bursts out, then combine all pieces together, make earthen lids; seal them up; seal them into śarabasamputa (earthen lead) and give it fire of dry cowdung cakes for 1 prahara. Next, on its getting cooled down, take it out. Mix that powder vala 1 into 1 tola of copper; gold. True acconding to tradition.
(1x) Make lump of equal quantity of mercury 1, orpiment 1 and zinc 1 and give 3 saturations to the combination with the juice of phyllanthus niruri; close (cover) it in a sampuța and give (put) a layer of cloth and clay; give khāra (salt) under and over; give it two fires. Mix 2 ratis of the essence into 1 tola of tin. It becomes silver. . (2). Make a leaf of gajaveli (a kind of iron), and drench (dip) it in the juice of Breynia patens or that of Kutarı (Kākarasana) 9 times and get it dried up. put it into a crucible. Heat it into a crucible, mix the essence ma. 1 into 1 tola of muhakām copper. Make the leaf of gajaveli iron thin. Bv heating it, quench it into the juice of Breynia,. Do thus 9 times. Break the leaf (of gujaveli) and crush it, give, the powder of it. 1 vāla into tin. There will be silver.
(3) (Take) sr. of zinc and make its leaf in Sambhara lūna (salt): give salt (to it) layer by layer into an earthen pot and close its mouth, give gajapuţāgni for 1 prahara. Mix then that essence vāla 3 into 1 tola of copper (or) 1 māsā into 2 tolas of copper, otherwise combine equal (quantity) of each, if not piercing, there becomes silver.
(4) Make a cup of silver of 1 tola, put 1 tola of mercury into it. Fill up sand into an earthen vessel, put the cup into it, place it (vessel) on the furnace and give fire of 5 praharas below (it). Give drops (tuya) of Calotropis gigantea over the cup drop by drop till the cup and mercury become one. Next mix the essence vāla 1 or māsā 1 into one tola of copper. (Gold)