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when here gold is produced, half of it should be used in religious activity, then only there is suceess, otherwise one gets destroyed,
The remaining thing becomes pure like the moon by the application of one hundred and twenty puțas (roastings). It gets certainly powdered instantly by the pressing of the hands without any difficulty. Mix only one rati of this essence into only 1 karşa of the heated well-known Nepalese copper. Immediately it becomes certainly calcinated (bhasmatah). The ash can be applied to another copper leaf, that also again to another successively. This ash can thus be used seven times and eight times also.
Gold gets certainly produced in that copper (i.e. copper is converted into gold). Here it is told by Jinadattsūri meditating on the two lotusfeet of Srimad Arhat for the benefit of the world.
Second Section.
Chemical processes for making silver.
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First kill tin (Vamga) with the stool (excreta) of a dog, put that tin into a plate, and rub orpiment, mica, poison, mercury and borax with the milk of Calotropis gigantea and Euphorbia antiquorum (Bhānuvajja). O king ! make the hill of silver. 3 :
Another interpretation :- That is to say, first kill tin with the stool (excreta) of a dog, put that tin into a plate, put copper tā. 2 and silver tā. 2; combine them together; put tablet (of tin ?) on them, again put tablet (of it) tā 2, close the sampuța (lid) and put a layer of cloth and clay over it. On its getting dried up, give it gajapuța (roasting) in fire in a pit of 1 sq. yard for 1 or 2 praharas. After the whole thing gets cooked, take it out, mix the essence into one tola of copper. There becomes gold. 4
Rub mercury pai. 1 in the juice of Krakaca, it become's like leech annelid. Next give tüyā (drops) of its juice-5 seers (to copper), it certainly gets coloured. It is said by Vallabhadāsa "It was quenced in its juice-1 seer. It was prepared according to my own conception. Tin combined with
1. SRSS., Ch. 14- 37-43 2. SRSS., Ch. 14. 66. 67 3. SRSS., Ch. 1. 34 4. SRSS.. Ch. 2. 1.34 (Comm.)
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