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Having rubbed three (mercury, gold and copper) with the juice of yellow Andropogon serratus, the essence of these measuring and gunja should be given into copper weighing one tola. There will be the accomplishment of gold. (1.1).
The third chapter consisting of 109 formulae of alchemy deals with various alchemical process of gold-making and silver-making, 2 scme chemical processes, 3 remedy for paralytic rheumatism, 4 fixation of mercury,5 process of making mercury out of mica, 6 medicine, ? process of making cinnabar, 8 process of copper-making, o process of making meņamudrā, 10 purification of copper, 11 making of guţikās (pills) for using in the practice of occultism, 12 etc., process of making the essence of mineral calamine, 13 and the process of making mercury fire- proved. 14
The fourth chapter consisting of 30 formulae deals with the chemical processes of gold making15, silver making16, the chemical process of incresing the carat of gold17 in Kavacıyantra, process of making medicinal pill, 18 process of making the essence of orpiment19, process of increasing the weight of gold.20, medicine, 21 process of making copper22 from the stones of earth passed by the earth worms and purification of Zinc23 ?
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1. Suvarna-Raupya-Siddhi-Sāstra ch. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 9x, 19, 20, 21, 25, 33.
37, 49, 50, 52, 53, 57, 58, 60, 63, 73, 75, 76, 77, 85, 86, 103, 105, 107, 109, Thid. ch. 3. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14, 16, 17, 18, 23, 24, 26, 28, 30, 31, 32, 34, 35, 39, 43.
44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 54, 62, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 74, 102, 104, 106. 3. Ibid. ch. 3. 5, 15 4. Ibid. ch. 3. 6x 5. Ibid. ch. 3. 22, 55, 56, 59, 64, 78, 81, 6. Ibid. ch. 3. 27. 7. Ibid. ch. 3. 38, 40, 51, 8. Ibid. ch. 3. 41, 9. Ibid. ch. 3. 61, 10. Ibid. ch. 3. 66, 11. Ibid. ch. 3. 66x 12. Ibid. ch. 3. 78-80, 82, 83, 13. Ibid. ch. 3. 84 14. Ibid., ch. 3. 108. 15. Icid., ch. 4. 3, 7, 12, 14, 18, 23, 25, 27, 28. 16. Ibid. ch. 4. 2, 4, 8, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 24, 29. . 17. Ibid. 4. 1. 18. Ibid. 4. 5. 19. Ibid. 4. 6. 20. Ibid. 4. 9. 21. Ibid. 4. 10, 11, 30. 22. Ibid. 4. 26. 23. Ibid., 4. 27,
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