Book Title: Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra
Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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________________ Take the hard substance, (gamgaḍo) which is in saṁkhia somala (oxide of arsenic), put it into a bottle, go on pouring the juice of lemon into it, go on stirring it up with a rod, but do like that so that the smelt of boiling does not come up. Place it on a Valukayantra, give it fire for 12 praharas. On its getting cold, take the essence out. Mix 1 rati of the essence into 1 tola of copper and tin respectively. (There becomes silver or gola ?) Grind paio (plices) of Kakasi (Sisymbrium irio ?) and make 2 big tablets, put one tablet into an earthen crucible, put the leaf of copper to. 5 over it, put somala (oxide of aresenic) 1 māsā over that copper leaf, put the second tablet of Kakasi, heat the whole things in on undara muşă (upside down crucible) There will be silver.1 183 Melt tin and pour it into the milk of Tridhārā Thohara. (a kind of ruphorbia nivuiia) next if Malla (oxide of iron) is put into it, there is success. (Silver ?) Put zinc 1 sr into the urine of man three times, into the urine of ass three times, into the urine of cow three times and into the urine of goat three times and purify it, Combine mercury with zinc by taking the quantity equal to the 1/3 part of it, give drops much over it with the milk of Euphorbia nivuila (Thohara) in a new pot for 12 praharas. Mix 1 māsā of the essence with 1 tola of copper. There will be silver." Grind lime of oyster shell in the leaf of centipeda orbicularis and grind tin 1 rati with it. Make (put) a seal by putting the whole thing into an earthen pot. give it gajapuțagni, There will be silver.1 Melt brass Nala-4 by putting it into tin vālā 16 (?), put aghatita vālā 8 into it by making it finely powdered so that metal gets mixed into metal (i. e. they become one). There becomes svatasiddhi (accomplishment of silver) in the case of silver undoubtedly." 1. SRSS., Ch. 10. 40 2. SRSS., Ch. 10. 42. 3. SRSS., Ch. 10. 46. 4. SRSS., Ch. 10. 47. 5. SRSS., Ch. 10. 48. 6. SRSS., Ch. 10. 54. 1. SRSS., Ch. 10. 61. 2. Ibid. Ch. 10. 62. Jain Education International For Personal & Private Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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