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Oxide of arsenic (Samkhiu malla) becomes quite white like a chalk. Take red and yellow Rekhai. i. e. Dāņinu samkhiu somala, (a kind of oxide of arsenic), Nimālā of living oi man -- 1 angula (of 1 angula=finger), dalu of Kadāni (not explained); crush nimālā (piece of finger) on the latter and approximately it becomes kodā, (Kathā), wrap oxide of arsenic with that malā; next put it into a glass bottle. ....
Then put it into an earthen pot, it becomes yellow, take it out. Next put 2 or 3 māsās of it into 1 tola of copper. If half is taken, there becomes silver. If half silver is combined with it there becomes joțaka (good silver). If ornament is made of this jotaka, it can be used. If it is purified in Hndari mūsā (a kind of crucible), it becomes artificial silver.
Take that while sulphuret of antimony (Saramo) out of which there comes by swelling fresh foam up like opium and like borax, it is put on fire. Alum and oxide of arsenic are of white colour. Put on them lime by drenching it. If a little lime becomes yellow, purify it and if that which becomes red, ferments alum, put that.
Accomplishment of silver-making process.? ! Give the juice of such creeper whose leaf is like jāli (net) and fruit is like liboli (neem) to tin. It turns into silver.3
eem) to tin. It turns into silver
If tin is drenched into the juice of Jalajambu (Hijjal=elatine varti ciletā), there becomes silver.
If tin is put into alum, oxide of arsenic and copper, there becomes silver.
Rub copper māsās 2 with sand (particles), rub 2 māsās of mercury and 1 māsā of silver, keep them wet with water in Saktodake (a kind of chemical water). Kill zinc 2 māsās in śrāvana day. Combine all together and
melt (them) by giving (putting) borax under (them). They become white like soap. There becomes silver of 5 māsās.
1. SRSS. Ch. 3. 28., 2. SRSS., Ch. 3. 30-31 3. Ibid., Ch. 3. 32. 4. SRSS., Ch. 3. 34. 5. Ibid., Ch. 3. 35. 6. SRSS., Ch. 3. 39.
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