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Copper with long gourd (Tumba gourd) is to be mixed with the root of Tidu (Cocceinia Indica), when the mixture is heated, (it), becomes gald. That is said by Jinendra.
The things whose oil is desired to be taken out are as follows: Sulphur or orpiment or somala (oxide of arsenic) and others. That is also only one tola of each, camphor was considered before. Only 1 masa is to be taken and sal-ammoniac of the same quantity is to be taken. Next the wise casts them into a glass casket by combining them together. He should heat the whole thing on fire by his own hand. It becomes oil quickly-the best means of making gold.
Smear the copper leaf with sulphur and beat it on fire and crush it completely. It becomes of yellow colour, instantly, no doubt.*
Smear the silver-leaf with the oil or orpiment. The learned should do like that, there becomes gold immediately, this is experimented by the author; here no hesitation should be made."
Cast orpiment measuring ten tolas into an auspicious (good) capper pot of three hundred tolas by grinding the thing (orpiment). Fill in there the juice of garlic having one granthi, measuring 250 tolas. And an intelligent man, having covered its mouth with a copper leaf, should select a testing ground not attacked (encroached) by the shade of trees. One's own shadow or others' is to be avoided. By digging a pit into the earth measur ing four cubits on all sides or by five cubits, fill it with the dung discharged by buffaloes, then place the pot there into the pit. Having filled it with earth, protect it by making a circular compound with thorny plants.
1. It is mentioned in the 1st chapter. V. 6. SRSS, See Ch. 14., V. 4. 2. SRSS., Ch. 14; Q. VV. 15-17
3. SRSS., Ch. I. Ch. 14. 2. 18
4. Ibid., Ch. 14. 2. 19
5. SRSS., Ch. 14. 2 19
6. Ibid., Ch. 14. 2. 20
7. SRSS., Ch. 14. 2 21
8. Ibid. Ch. 14. 2. 22 9. Ibid., Ch. 14. 2. 23-26
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