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it into the water of Triphalā (Āmalaka, Haritaki and Vaheļā). Zinc will be purified. Next mix 'mercury with it; combine of them with pure silver. There will be good combination.
Silver--making
Crush the leaf of zinc sr. and sambhara luna (salt of sambhara lake) 1 sr., give (put) them layer by layer. Put them into an earthen pot and a small piece of cloth into its mouth, give a seal on it, give it gajapuțāgni of (for) 21 praharas. Purify (wash) copper and mix 1, māsā of the essence into 11 tola of copper. There becomes silver.”
Make powder by grinding three things. The powder of Adiantum (Triparņa-mukhamali) mamgaphu pegami and sal-ammoniac. Mix 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of Copper. (Threr will be silver.)3
Take equal portion of each of these five things, copper bhār, zinc bhār, brass ; bhār, Kathir (tin) bhār and lead bhār. Make a closed crucible, combine these five together, put them in a crucible with the oil of linseed. Mix these five in a crucible. Put over them particles (dust) of piper beetle by taking the leaf of gangeri (Sida Spinosa), put and crush kātho cuno (lime) and areca nut into the crucible. Give these five things over it. Close the crucible. Put a layer of cloth and clay over it; put it into coal of 10 srs., give it fire. On its getting cooled down, take the whole thing. Put the combination of the five things into 1 tola of copper and melt it. It will be gold. If the combination is given into kathir (tin), there will be silver.
Apply the root or stem or juice of Clerodendron Siphonanthus and persian Ricinus communis to tin. There becomes silver.
Mix sr. and sr. of the juice (of Brahmadandi and pārasa Erandi) into į sr. of copper. There becomes silver by the mixture of these two.
1. SRSS., Ch. 4. 27. 2. SRSS., Ch. 4. 29. 3. SRSS.. Ch. 5. 9. 4. SRSS., Ch. 5. 12. 5. SRSS., Ch. 5. 21. 6. Ibid., Ch. 5. 21.
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