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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(10). Grind (or rub) sal-ammoniac tā 3, particles of copper ţā 1 with the juice of citrus lemon in a copper pot. All becomes liquid (rasa); then it is finished (completed.) Jamgāl essence or verdigris or green rust) is accomplished. Next take jamgāl tā. 3, and fresh particles of tutaha (a kind of chemical substance) tā 1. Make them wet (drench them) with the juice of citrus lemon for 4 praharas, put borax and melt them; iron comes out separately. There becomes copper. Take it, mix sivler just with equal portion (quantity) of copper. There become 6 carats of it. Next make goțaka (pieces) of gold (48).
(11). Crush the small fruits of Neem tree, rub or reduce mercury to paste in its oil in a mortar, give 21 puțas to it, give tin į bhār, make pill of them. True. (49).
(12). Take equil portion (of each) of these five (things)-copper { bhār, zinc ļ (a tin) į bhār and lead bhār. Make a closed crucible. Combining these five together, put them in a crucible with the oil of lin seed. Mix these five in a crucible. Put over them particles (dust) of piper betle by taking the leaf of gangeri (Sida spinosa), putting and cutting (crushing) kātho cūno (lime) and areca nut into the crucible, give these five things over it. Close (seal up) the crucible, put (give) a layer of cloth and clay over it. Put it coal of 10 Srs; give it fire. On its getting cooled down, take out the whole thing. Put combination of the five things into 1 tola of copper and melt it. It will be gold. If the combination is given into kathir, (tin) there will be silver. (50).
(13). Take a piece of cinnabar pai, 1 bhār. Next make bread of the powder of wheat and put cinnabar into the bread. Repeat the process. into 108 breads. Then put the piece of cinnabar into an iron cup, put over it these two things-honey-pai 24 bhār and clarified butter-pai 24 bhār and cook it. When the piece cinnabar dries up clarified butter and honey, then take it out. Next wash the cup or put it into a cup; putting again honey and clarified butter (into it) make fire-fire of coal 4 (Sr.). Like this give it 108 fires. Then it is purified. If 1 rati (of the essence) is taken with beetle-leaf, there becomes an appetite of 2 or 4 srs. Put 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper; (there becomes) gold.
It becomes like gold coin. If pure gold is rightly (properly) (correctly) melted, there will come double value of it, true (51).
(14.) Take mortar and pestle of black Alangium lamarkii. Rub mercury to. 10 in it (mortar) for 1 or 2 days. Mercury becomes butter like, and fire proved (52)