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give fire of dry goat's dung cakes underneath the vessel. There will be silver.
Give 21 saturations of milk of She-sheep to the flower of white Butea Frondosa (Sveta-Palāśa). Next melt tin by purifying it. Mix 1 tola of it with 1 tola of the powder of the essence. There will be silver. ?
Make the leaf of tin (Kalahi) 1 sr. as thin as thorn-piercing. Next put it into an earthen pot and pouc the juice of citrus lemon on it by pressing up to part 1 with 150 citrus lemons. Next keep the leaf by washing. Then make fine powder of lime of oyster shell 2 sts. by crushing it. Then make a cup by making a hole into the main root of the wood of Salara (Shorea robusta). Then give the powder of lime of oyster shell under and over the leaf, give it layer by layer. Close the mouth of the cup, put a layer of cloth and clay; give it gajapuțāgni with fire of dry wild goat-dung cakes. On its getting cooled down, take it out. There becomes silver. True.3
If accomplished galija (a kind of mercury) mercury is found, put it into a crucible and put a little oxide of arsenic. Lit fire under it; go on giving covā (drops ?) of the juice of Lippia nodifiora (jala-pipar). Mercury will turn into silver.
Salt, hāra (not identified), alkali or caustics (Khāra) are found in Madakaraṇakuņņa (pond) in the south. If there is brass 12 paisā bhāra, take pai. 2, 6 bhār of salt and hāra, alkali (Khāra) of the same quantity of each. First, if brass is pai. 12, take swine's milk pai. 5 bhār. Smear the leaf (of brass) three times, give it fire. Next crush alkali with water, smear it (with it) and give it fire. Put it into a crucible and blow it into the fire of dry wild cowdung cakes up to an hour. On its getting cooled down, take it out. There becomes silver.
Give 7 putas of the juice of brinjal to oxide of arsenic. Next give 7 saturations of gobhi (Elephantopsus scaber) to it. Then put (give) 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper by melting it. Copper becomes white, combine of silver, it is) good, (Srikāra).
1. SRSS., Ch. 3. 47. 2. SRSS., Ch. 3. 48. 3. SRSS., Ch. 3. 54. 4. SRSS., Ch. 3. 62. 5. SRSS., Ch. 3. 64.
6. SRSS., Ch. 3. 67. Jain Education International
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