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It is the classical Sanskrit exhibiting its rich style in both the first and fourteenth chapters. The second chapter is a Sanskrit commentary on a few verses of the first chapter, having hidden (secret) meaning of alchemical thoughts and practices. The third to the thirteenth chapters of the Suvarna-Raupyà -Siddhi-Šāstra have been written in Gujarati by prose-order to convey the alchemical thoughts and ideas through the language of the people among whom the author moved. So the style of this part is the style of the people's dialect which distingushes itself from that of the Sanskrit, Prākrit and Apabhramģa literature. Here the purpose of the author was to teach alchemy to the people in a natural style but not in an artifical one of the Sanskrit Prākrit, and Apabhramsa and Old Gujarati verses.
When the style of the Suvarņa-Raupya-Siddhi-śāstra is judged with an objective approach, it is found that it has served its purpose in full by embodying the teachings on alchemy in both the classical and spoken language.
It contains some literary flourishes in the form of verses faithfully transmitted from generation to generation and in the manner of expression of the author in prose to convey the alchemical thoughts and ideas to the people. This method of explaining the alchemical concepts and medical theories and occultism made them easily comprehensible and intelligible to the general mass. .
Jinadatta Sūri moved among all classes of people of the society, so he took care to make his alchemical teachings understandable to them by drawing on the familiar method of exposition occurring in their life.
The author has made a study of alchemical truth with the purpose of attaining resultant truth with devotion on the basis of his scheme. He searched out something and got a line of meaning in the things of alchemy and medicine and occultism as satisfying his inquisitive mind. Here the style of expression is scientific. So the voice of words spoken by him is impersonally logical with a stress laid on the facts of science.
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