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Combine together Kathir (Tin) 2 srs, sea salt (Saimdhava)-3 srs. and milk of Borassus flabellifer (palin)-5 srs. and put the combination into an earthen vessel. Give a lid over its mouth, close up the joint thickly and dry it up. Again if there becomes a gap (crack), put clay to the joint. Do as such so that the smoke does not come out. Place it on the furnace, lit fire under it by setting fire with tamarind wood. Give it dipagni till salt and milk attain dryness (or fineness). There becomes silver.1
Make the leaf of Kathir (tin) thin, next take alum and Samkhiu somala (a kind of oxide of arsenic) and Anero somala khar (a kind of somal Khar)-ṭā. 1 and 2 respectively, put- sr. of juice of palm into a matheri (a kind of vessel), give 7 patas (roastings) to that leaf. Dry it up in the sunrays. Next take 5 srs. of pieces of Kalicuna and fill an earthen vessel (or jar) with it. Bury that vessel into the ground up to its brim. Then put the leaf into the lime of vessel (jar). Fill lime over it, then pour taḍi (juice of palm ?). Next seal it up immediately with clay. Keep it for 3 days by sealing up its whole mouth. Next take out the essence. It (leaf) becomes silver."
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Drench cinnabar in the juice of Bhuirigani (Solanum xantho-carpum) 21 srs; put 200 tolas of its fruit into that cooked mixture. Smear the gum of purging cassia (or Cassia Fistula) on the leaf (or leaves) of copper and silver three times. Yogavidya-1 or 2. "Put together rasa mineral or liguid) of saimdhava (sea salt) and lime (Cūnā) by combining them and pour kathira (tin) 108 times. Crush 1 sr, of kathira and 2 srs. of lime (Kalicuno) and put the leaf into the mixture and make it cold. Put Rasa (Mineral or liquid little by little; do not put it at once (at a time). Next on its getting cooled down, take it out. There will be good silver.3
Make a hole into a Surana (Amorphophallus campanulatus) and fill a cup of Nagachikani (Centipeda orbicularis). Put the leaves of Kathira (a kind of tin) over that. Put 1 māsā of mercury on the leaf of pai. 1 bhar. If there is kathir pai. 1 bhar take, chikani pai, 2 (bhār) put the leaves (of tin) layer by layer, close it (hole) by putting a gaḍabacu (pieces of Surana), put a special cup on it. Cover it up with a layer of clay and cloth and burn it in fire. There becomes silver.*
1. Ibid., Ch. 8. 5.
2. SRSS., Ch. 8. 7.
3. SRSS.. Ch. 8. 9. 4. SRSS., Ch. 8. 15.
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