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Take cinnabar (sulphide of mercury) and zinc, make the leaf of brass thin, next crush the root of uḍad (a kind pulse-plant) (Taruşka); make phinavaḍā (not explained), put that leaf into Phinavaḍā, fry the vaḍā in the mustard oil, next make it cool. Then mix Suvarṇantara (not clear) with the juice of Euphorbia pilulifera (Nagarjuni). Put mercury ta. 10 into an earthen pot and give cuya (drops) on it with five seers of Nagarjun juice. Mercury may or may not become hard. There becomes silver.1
Take Cissus quandrangularis (Tridhārī hāḍasakali=Asthisamhari) – gadiyānā - 3, melt trapu (a kind of tin) tã. 1 and put the juice of Tridhari Haḍāsakali into it. There becomes silver.2
First pour trapu (tin) into solanum yanthoearupum seven times. (Bhuirigani=Kaṇṭikāri) seven times and into a bitter long gourd seven times. It becomes silver. 3
Keep the five parts (paṁcamga) of white Tribulus Terrestris (gokharu) (fruit, flower, leaf, bark and root) in cow's urine for seven days. Next take them out, dry them up in shade.
Crush them into powder, keep it. Then mix 1 tola of this powder into 1 seer of tin. There becomes silver.
True.
Make the leaf of zinc pai. 1. Next take lime pai. 5 and crush natron (saji) pai. Lay out or spread out portion of lime at the bottom and put natron over it and put the leaf over it. Spread out natron on it(respectively). Thus put them layer by layer (one layer after another successively). Again put natron; give portion of lime on it and put the whole thing into a samputa and seal it up, give fire to it for 12 praharas. On the cooking down of the burning cow-dung, take out the essence and give 1 masă of it into 1 tola of copper. There will be silver, combine part of silver. Jotaka becomes worthy for sale.
Make ash by burning the five parts of while Visakha paro (Horse purslane) on an earthen pan. About sam sr. 3, or 4 sis. of urine of a boy & 4 sr. of urine of an ass are to be taken. Next put Kavala Bevaḍāri (a kind of vanaspati) over it, put tin by pressing there, it becomes beutiful.
1. SRSS., Ch. 3. 16,
2. Ibid., Ch. 3. 17.,
3. SRSS., Ch. 3. 23.,
4. SRSS. ch. 3. 24.,
5. Fruit, flower leaf, bark and root.
6. SRSS., Ch. 3. 26.,
What is silver
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