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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(1) Heat thin leaves of silver and quench them into oil butter-milk, cow's
urine, kāñji (sour rice water) and decoction of kutatthi (Dolichos), it will get purified. 1
(2) Melt gilver and put equal portion of lead and borax, and rub it,
again heat it and quench it into the oil of Jyotişmati (Malakamgani) three times. Silver will get purified by this process.?
Arrange on an earthen dish a mixture of lime and ashes in a circular row and place in it silver with-its equal weight of lead. Now roast it over fire until the lead is consumed. Silver thus purified is to be used for medicinal purposes.3 .
Silver can be reduced to ashes by the following processes : :
(i) Rub mercury-ashes in the juice of Artocarpus lakoocha and smear
silver leaf with it, make the leaf embedded in sulphur in a covered crucible and heat it over a sand bath by closing the joint of the crucible with cloth and clay, give intense fire to the crucible in a Valukāyantra for eight praharas.
On its getting cooled down, crush the leaves of silver to fine powder and put equal portion of pure orpiment, and rub it in the juice of lemon and then roast it in a gajapuța twelve times. By this process, Silver is reduced to ashes.
(ii) Prepare silver ashes with golden pyrite. Rub the powder with the
powder of golden pyrite in the juice of lemon and roast it in a gajapuțāgni thirty times. Silver will be reduced to ashes.
1. Taile takre gavām mūtre hyāranale kulatthaje / . Krāmannisecayettaptam drāve tu saptadhā //
Svaşņādilohapatrāņāṁ suddhireșā prasasyate // RS. 5/29. 2. Nāgena tamkanenaive vāpitaṁ suddhimịcchati Taraṁ trivāram
nikșiptam țaile jyotişmatibhavet || , RS. 5/31. 3. Kharpare bhasma cuộņābhyāṁ paritaḥ palikāṁ Caret. | Tatra
Tūpyaṁ vinikşipya Samasisassamanvitam / Jātasisakşayam yāvad dhamet tāvatpunaḥ punaḥ / Ittham samsodhitam rūpyam Yojaniyam
rasādişu 11, RS. 5/32-33. 4. RS. 5/34–35. 1. Māksīkacūrņalumgalma marditam puțitam śanaiḥ / Triṁsadvāreņa tattāram bhasma sājjāyatetarām || , RS. 5/36.