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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(20) Melt kathir (a kind of tin) sr. and pour it into oil and curd 2-7 times. Next pour it into the juice of Neem seven times. Then melt tin in an earthen vessel. Put tamarind over it by crushing and pounding it. Secondly lit fire under it and cover it with a lid over it. On getting burnt the content is reduced to ashes. It becomes deadlike. Next put 4 vānās (things). Then take bhupadala (a kind of vanaspati) and rub (or reduce to paste) mercury pai 1 bhar. Next put it into a samputa (lid) in a crucible and give a hard seal into its mouth; give it fire of the goat's dung for 4 praharas. It becomes white. Next give (mix) rati of the essence into 1 tola of copper. (There becomes silver) (38).
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(21) Rub mercury with the juice of Euphorbia pilulifera (Nagarjuni) in a mortar for a day. Put it on fire and reduce it to paste for 7 praharas in a mortar, go on putting juice; mercury gets killed (38 X).
(22) (Take) mercury pai-1, zinc pai. 3 bhar, nila thuthu (a kind of poison) pai. 1 and put them together on an oven and give them fire for (of) ghaḍi 2. Mercury becomes fixed. Next make lump (paste) of it with zinc and mix silver just equal to it. There becomes good silver (39).
(23) Give ash of samkha (conch-shell) to mercury, making it (conchshell) powdered, and to oxide of arsenic (malla) by taking mercury. Mix (take) good alum into milk, mercury-tola, lead and oxide of arsenic hṛ-māsā. 1., (take) sulphur tā 1, natron ta 1. lime tā 1, sal-ammoniac tā 1, oxide of arsenic ta 1, orpiment ta 1. Make lump of mercury and zinc. Next crush the medicines and give (mix) them into copper. Then there is woodfordia froribunda (Dhahaḍiphul). Putting all together, put Dhahaḍiphul ță 4 (into) copper ta and zinc tola (into the essence). There will be gold (40).
(24) Rub orpiment tā 2, realgar tā 3, sulphide of mercury (cinnabar) tā 2 in a mortar in the milk of calotropis gigantea for a prahara. Filter them in piece of cloth and cook them in Dolikayantra with milk for 36 praharas. Mix the essence 1 rati into Rang (a kind of metal). There becomes silver (41).
(25) Combine copper, zinc, lead, mercury and the juice of cedrus deodar (and make the essence by rubbing them). Put i rati of the essence into 16 tolas of copper. (There will be) gold (42).
(26). Wash the earth of earth-worm (annelid) and take out the stones (from it). Next make powder of the wing of a peacock by cutting it (into pieces) with a scissor.