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Make pieces of Lūniv Somala Khāra (a kind of oxide of arsenic) tola 1, cook (ferment) it in a Dolikāyantra with the milk of she-goat. Mix the essence-1 māsā into 1 tola of copper. There becomes silver.
Place (give) Kalāhi (a kind of tin) tola-2 and carbonate of potash under and over. Take out the juice of white cumin seed; go on giving its juice to them till they are quenched. Heat this combination, next heat it in a closed crucible. There becomes silver.”
Make kathir (a kind of tin) sr. and put it into oil and curd 2-7. times. Next put it into the juice of Neem seven times. Then melt tin in an earthen vessel. Put tamarind over it by crushing and pounding it. Secondly, lit fire, under it and cover it up with a lid over it. On 'getting burnt the content is reduced to ashes. It becomes dealdlike. Next put 4 vānis (things or 4 carats ?). Then take bhūpāļala (not explained) and rub mercury pai. 1 bhār. Next put it into sampuța in a crucible and give a hard seal into its mouth; give it fire of the goat's dung for 4 praharas. It becomes white. Next mix 1 rati of the essence into 1 tola of copper. There becomes silver.3
Take mercury pai. 1, zinc pai. 3 bhar, blue thuthu (a kind of poison) pai. 1 and put them together on an oven and give them fire for ghadi-2. Mercury becomes fixed. Next make of it with zinc and mix silver-just equal (quantity) to it. There becomes good silver.4
Rub orpiment tā. 2, realgar tā. 2, sulphide of mercury (cinnabar) tā. 2 in mortar in the milk of calotropis gigantea for a prahara. Filter them
a piece of cloth and cook them in Dolikāyantra with milk for 36 praharas. Mix the essence-1 rati in Rang (a kind of metal). There becomes silver."
Take mercury pai. 1 and zinc 14 srs. Put oil into an iron pan. Melt zinc three times. Next melt it seven times in an earthen crucible, quench
1. SRSS,, Ch. 4. 17. 2. SRSS. Ch. 4. 19. 3. SRSS., Ch. 4. 20. 4. SRSS., Ch. 4. 22. 5* SRSS., Ch. 4. 24.
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