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mineral calamine becomes pure. Next combine that mineral calamine 1 tola and silver 1 tola and melt them. Cover and put them in a crucible. That is, there become silver pieces of 18 carat.1
Takr sr. of powder of Jowar and sr. of powder of wheat-two combining, it comes to about 1 sr. Mix 1 tola of grains of Kathira (tin) into the mixture. Next make bread and feed a cock.
Take its excreta. Mix that excreta into 15 srs. of the juice of Fuphorbia pilulifera. Take cuya (drops) into a patalayantra; give it fire, it falls down, that becomes silver."
Give 21 putas (roastings) to raw salt with the juice of white Bandāli and rub it. Next bind the tablet of mercury with Mora Thuthu (Thutha) (a kind of poison); spread that salt at the bottom in a crucible, put the tablet (of mercury) in the centre and give the salt over it. Seal up the crucible and give it fire for ghaḍı 1. That tablet becomes silve.3
Make lump of these four things-silver ma. 3, zinc ma 3, kathir (a kind of tin) māsā 3 and lead ma. 3 and then put it (lump) into an earthen pot (or make tablets of it.)
Next melt them and put 4 māsās of mercury into it. Then crush 4 māsas of samkhiu somala and burn it over 5 or 7 times and go one putting it into the mixture by tips. When the essence becomes smokless, take it out. That tablet becomes reduced to ashes. Melt silver ma 6 and brass māsā 6, put this ash into the mixture. There becomes silver.+
Take white cinothi (Abrus precatorius Linn) and a wood of Myrolselan (Bahiḍa) 2 srs, make a hole into the wood of Bahiḍa and put the powder of Abrus precatoris Linn) into it, melt old copper into that, put it into its juice. Next take 5 srs. of lime, and its fire generated by sprinkling water, next make fire of dry cowdung cakes for 1 prahara and put it on it. Then take it out and filter the thing (essence). Put mala phitaki (alum) vāla 2 into copper to. 1; silver is produced."
1. SRSS., Ch. 3. 104.
2. SRSS., Ch. 3. 106.
3. SRSS., Ch. 4. 2.
4. SRSS., Ch. 4. 4.
5. SRSS., Ch. 4. 8.
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