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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Make a cup or a small piece of thorn piercing-copper leaf, crush āmalasāra sulphur-'sr. and mix oxide of arsenic in equal quantity into it. That copper becomes yellow. Rub it with į sr. of juice of Citrausa (a kind of vanaspati) and make it ferment for a day, next melt it by putting it into a crucible 18 times. There becomes gold. 1
Crush (or grind) gum of Purging Cassia (girmālā) tree tā 30, salammoniac tā 6, sulphur tā 16 and fill them into a bottle and seal up its mouth. Keep it (bottle) in the horse dung for a month. There becomes oil (inside the bottle). Smear the leaf of silver with it, give it heat, there becomes gold?
Melt together these three-two parts of copper, two parts of tin (a kind of tin) and four parts of brass, next, if the mixture is poured into Kāganela (a kind of Vanaspati) 21 times, there becomes medium gold. If it is poured 108 times into it, there becomes best gold.3
Melt copper vāla-1 and 2 vālas of gum of the fruit of girnālā (Purging Cassia,) together. Next put milk of Euphorbia pilulifera (ksiraṁ= gambhāri=arkapuspa-dugdhikarinto that mixture.) There becomes gold. 4
Take mineral calamine tola 14 and cook (ferment) it by putting it in the urine of goat. į sr., cook it with gentle fire. Next dry it up by taking it out, grind it finely and put 2 māsās, it becomes roundish (or ba!l-like) at the time of grinding, Put (it) and grind it, then put it in an earthen crucible and put copper 3 māśās into it by purifying it. Do it thus in oil, butter-milk and cow's urine. Put that copper into the crucible, Put a layer of cloth and clay over the crucible again by closing its mouth. Heat it in coal up to 2 ghaạis (2x24 minutes) or 3. There becomes gold.
Thus pour the same into crucible twice or thrice if stirred up (turned round); there becomes best, gold (astapāda).
Taka copper of the wing of a peacock. Put it into a crucibte and make fire under it slowly and slowly, grind some dry wild cowdung cakes and spread out the same into it and melt copper. It becomes gold.? It is certain. 1. SRSS., Ch. 3. 49 2. Ibid. 50 3. SRSS., Ch, 3. 52 4. Tbid,, Ch. 3. 53 5. SRSS., Ch. 3. 57 6. SRSS., Ch. 3. 58 7. SRSS., Ch. 3. 60