Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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30. Orpiment gets purified by the process of cooking in a Dolayantra with water of husk of barley (Hordeum vulagre= jau) or phaseolus mungo, (Masa) and Dolichos biflorus (Kulattha) separately with cow's milk for two yamas for each.
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(Brahmavṛkşa), Sigru (Moringa Pteryagoperma), Daedalacathus purpurasecus (Daśamu!) and in cow's milk.
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Copper pyrite is purifid by the process of cooking for two yamas in the water of husk of paddy & Dolichos.
Now, on filtering of orpiment and copper pyrite in a fine piece of cloth and on giving putas (roasting) to them in the water (juice) of lemon, their pieces become hard. On rubbing it on body it becomes hard like diamond.
Now the process of killing mercury and Iron
Combine gold and lead, tin (vanga) with orpiment and sulphur and brass and some metal or calotropis gigantea or sun flower. Make leaf (of gold and lead), put it into a sampuţa (lid), dipped with each other (mutually) into the milk of calotropis gigantea, put it into the Samputa. They get killed.
Black iron dies on its giving (mixing into) repeatedly to cinnabar for eight months and on the saturation of it with cow's urine and the essence of the Triphala with eight putas (roastings)
More over
The death of gold, silver, dinakṛt iron, tin and lead takes place by the smearing given with the essence prepared by rubbing respectively vimala (a kind of rasa mineral) copper pyrite, sulphur, cinnabar. Orpiment and realgar with the juice of Butea frondosa, Dalbergia sisso (rathya), (śiśṁapā), Moringa Pterygospermu, (sigru), Vitex negundo, Amaranthus,