Book Title: Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra
Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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________________ (51) Give conch-shell to mercury by baking it, give it to oxide of areșenic by killing mercury. (52) Good alum is given puța (roasting) in milk, mix 1 māsā of essence into 1 tola of lead. (Silver ?) (53) Take mercury tā 4, skin of the horn of sheep tā 4, hoof of horse țā. į; take tips of them and put (them) into gajāveli' (a kind of iron and steel,) it melts; take iron pai 21 & Rāsega; iron melts in copper, give mineral calamine pai 1, molasses tā. 9 under and over (it). Give a layer of cloth and clay over it. Thus give it fire 3 times. (54) Grind cinnabar pai. 1 in the juice of Aloe vera and give Bishops weed (Trachy spermum ammi syn caram copticum) (ajamo) under and over it. Thus give it fire 3 times, reduce mercury to paste in borax, give it dipāgni 3 times. Next, by grinding these three, pound (them) in the juice Mesua ferra (kesudi). Make two tablets of them. Put silver and copper plate inside and give the gum (gund) of Butea frondosa (Khākhra) over and under, heat the whole thing in an oper crucible. (55) Grind mammata, homapā. and gora-raka? in the juice of tambola (betel leaf), put (hold) fresh mica in between, give a chipați (tip) of bark of the roof of Echinops echinata (utakațā) and umțiu gamdhaka (a kind of sulphur). There remains the fire of thick grass for 12 praharas (i.e. give fire for 12 praharas), quench lead 121 times in the urine of ass, its blackness goes away. Next rub molasses in the urine of ass 21 times. Rub saffron (Kesar) tā. 1 and 2 lemons for 4 ghadis (4 x 24 minutes), smear the leaf of copper with it, reduce it (copper leaf) to ashes in a closed crueible, keep it alive, give it tips of surakhara-(a kind of oxide) = Nitrate salt pater pai. 4, natron (Sāji-khāra) māsā 6, Pāpaļi (Samcoro)3 māsā 6 in an iron cup, mercury is fixed. (56) Grind killed mercury tā. 1, borax țā 1, white glass tā. 1, while Dhānyābhra (a kind of mica) țā. 1 in the milk of. Euphorbia antiguorum (Vajri), rub Hamkhedi gandhaka (a kind sulphur) Pai. 4, Paso (pāro ? = mercury) pai. 4 and seed of limboli (Neem) 1 sr. for 3 days. Put the whole thing into a fire-proof bottle and seal it up, give a cork of Neem into its mouth, put 7 layers of cloth and clay (over it), heat it in a Damaruyantra by litting fire of 2 maunds of dry dung of she-goat. Further, it is to be known from the guru. 1. Gajaveli – Polāda. (Steel) 2. Not identifiable at the present state of knowledge. They may be minerals.. 3. A kind of salt Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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