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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The process of making 14 carats (Gold) :
(26) Give 24 saturations of the water of sal-ammoniac (to gold). Next put it into a glass casket, then pour Khadapāņi (grass water ?) into an earthen vessel, put the casket into the body of dhrakhag, lit fire under it. (Heat) it till there becomes water, then take it. Make the water of mercury double than all things of the casket. Then combine both the waters. That is, Rasa is accompished. Melt 1 tola of the Nepalese copper and mix with it 1 rati of the produced rasa. There becomes 14 carat gold.
The process of making pārāpāņi (Water of mercury)
(27) Make a little water of sal-ammonic tā. 30, put mercury tā. 10 into it and rub it. First keep separate a little water of sal-ammoniac, put that water little and rub (mercury), when all (whole) thing is rubbed, put it into an earthen vessel, put a lid over it and a layer of cloth and clay over it. Place the vessel on the furnace (oven), make dipāgni for 1 prahara. Again take it out. Put the whole thing into a mortar, pour that preserved water of sal-ammoniac little by little and rub it, again by, (according to) the first method, put the whole thing into an earthen vessel, and place it on fire, make dipägni for 1 prahara. Thus give it fire 23 times. Next put the whole thing into a glass casket, spread out straw into an earthen vessel, put the casket into it and place it, (vessel) on the furnace, give fire below it, till the thing of the casket becomes water.
Thus is the process of making water of mercury. The process of making the water of sal-ammoniac.
(28) Bring sal-ammoniac, make a hole into a bringal by cutting its stalk (bița), take out the kernel (garbha) of the brijal and fill sal-ammoniac into it, fill the Kernel into it, give the piece of the stalk into the hole, put it into a paddy of 1 prastha and boil it there. Sal-ammoniac becomes water. Cook croton tig., Cassia anqustifolia and Dolichos biflorus in water in a Dolikayantra for 1 prahara. Next take the whole thing out, combine together 1 tola of Cassia and 1 tola of Hamsapaka cinnabar, and rub them in the juice of Aloe vera; thorn piercing copper leaf with that paste. Put it into a fresh sarāb (lid) and give it gajapuțāgni (by) putting a layer of cloth-clay, give a puța (roasting). to it till copper gets killed. Next, mix the dust of copper equal to silver and melt. There becomes 10. caratgold.
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