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

Page 97

:-(15) Give tüyā (drops) of juice of hotha (a kind of Vanaspati) to mercury to. 1; give gentle fire and țūyā of the flower of Hotha over it. It is accomplished. After 1/4 of 1 ghadi (24/4 = 6 minutes) take out the thing, and blow it into that crucible; again give the juice of the flower of Hotha; again make it cool, again, put it for the third time in a crucile and give it the juice of the flower of Hotha. At the bottom swells the essence. Mix it into copper tola 1, gold (53).
First process of purification of mineral Calamine.
(16). Put mineral calamine twice into the milk of Euphorbia nivuiia or merifolia (Thohar), twice into the juice of Aloe vera and 8 times in the milk of calotropis gigantea. Next (put it) into sambhara salt. Smear its leaves with Alatāghỉta, (a kind of clarified butter), lay out (spread) them into an earthen jar; seal up the jar; give it gajapuțāgni. This is the essence. Next put pure mercury in a mortar and rub it with the juice of sqeezed citrus lemon for 11 days, and mix it up. Make equal qunatity of mineral calamine and mercury and put them into a crucible and seal it up, put it on fire and heat it with the blowing pipe. Silver (54). True.
(17) Put mercury tā 7 and sulphur tā 21 into a mortar and make collyrium (of them). Next give 360 saturations to it with the juice of Aloe Vera.
Then it should be put on fire. There does not become smoke; such butter-like thing gets melted (liquefied). When fire gets extinguished, it is accomplished. There becom 23 gold by smearing of the essence on the leaf of silver. (55).
*** (18) Smear the Nepalese copper-leaf with Hemakuştha (dung of first born elephant) and Bakajala (a kind of vanaspati ?) by piercing it with tanka (thorn). Heat it in fire. There becomes gold (56).
(19). First dung of an clephant just born is called Hemakustha. Reduce it to ash and besmear it with the juice of citrus lemon. It is to be dried up on fire like thin crisp cake made of flour mixed with spices. There becomes gold (57).
(20) Boil thick curd-water, 10 Srs. Allow it to be crystalized, (Vitaradava), when it becomes curd (crystalized) by getting sparated, then bind it in a piece of cloth just as srikhaņda is bound. Take out water (from it). Next put it into a copper vessel. Then put tesadi 1 sr. (into it) like alum.