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unbroken (pieces). After seven saturations calamine is to be crushed. Thus the essence is accomplished.
Next copper 2-parts, silver 2 parts and Dvadaśa suvarna (12 carat gold) -4 rati are to be melted together. After melting them all-vala 8, put the essence into 8 vala of these melted metals. As a result of the chemical process there becomes gold.1
Another Explanation
Crush all these-2 māsas of copper, 2 māsas of gold; 4 māsas of silver, 4 or 8 māsās of calamine; rub them with the juice of new red leaves of Jambulanum; crush them all with betel leaf, make them rubbed in a mortar with the juice of leaves of Jambulanum for 4 days by combining them together. Next the whole thing is to be cast into a crucible. It is to be made of glass. Put the medicines into it, betel leaf is to be crushed and its juice is to be extracted into the crucible. The glass crucible is to be given a sampuța (lid covering) with a glass crucible. A civara (a piece of cloth) made wet with the spittle of betel leaf is to be placed on the crucible. Over it a layer of clay and cloth is to be put. Then it is to be heated on fire of 1 seer of coal. On its being cooled down, it is to be taken out. The essence becomes gold."
Take alum and sipani (a kind of oyster shell) and 12 (parts of) taṇakatoḍi (tejan todī māți a kind of soil) in tin (rang). Carpața makes a magic performance, i.e. gold is made.
Take emarald (or gold) and lead (of equal proportion) and mercury having equal quantity of them; grind them with a butt (Puța) in the juice of Andropogon serratus (devadāli). Do not carry on cultivation (agriculture) labouriously. One rati of the essence (Kalka) pierces 64 tolas of any metal (to make gold.)
Mix (One part of) carbonate of soda, (one part of) rice gruel (bhaji), (one part of) alum, (one part of) mercury, two parts (double) of orpimeut (Sulphite of arsenic) into copper with reason. What does the famine do ?5. i.e. There will be gold.
1. SRSS., Ch. 1.7, Ch. 2. (Comm.)
2. SRSS., Ch. 2. (Commn.)
3. SRSS., Ch. 1.8
4. SRSS., 1. 9
5. SRSS., Ch. 1. 13
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