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Theprocess of making carat
Combine all these-two māsas of silver, I māsa of copper. 2 māsā of particles of iron 2 māsas of bell metal. 2 māsas of lead in an earthen pot and liquefy; while melting, there remains 3 māsas of them. Stop it then, give rang (a kind of metal ?) to silver. Then melt Hunnano silver-7 ratis with one rati of Kalka (essence) with 3 māsās of the above things. Put the essences, while melting them. Put one rati of copper of Thutha. Melt all those. There will be good gold. If 1 masa of the essence is put into 3 tolas of Vani (thing), these increases the carat. Thus true.
Dried up juice of cannbis Sativa and that of Wedelia Calendulacea absorb water. Take it out on its getting cold. If that water is given as drop (tūya) in an earth vessel on the leaf of green vitriol-gold smeard with lemon, it becomes pure, its carat increase.3
Make pilis of orpiment 1, sulphur 1 realgar, thuthu (a kind of poison) golden pyrite 1, cinnabar 1 and light green vitrio with honey. The essence will assimilate silver of equal portions. It becomes equal to gold. Its carat increases.*
Take sal-ammoniac ta. 3, alum ta 3, thuihu ta, 3 Khndi (chalk) tā. 3 Mulanimati (Miani soil). tā. 3. and pohara of brick ta. 3, all in equal portions. Make thorn-piercing leaf of gold of 8 carats, smear or dip it with (or in) rsaiu (mercury?) spread out the powder of these things. Next give (put) a layer of wax and cloth over the samputa (lid) by putting the whole thing into it Place it (Saravasamputa) in a vālukayantra and heat it for 1 prahara. There increases the carat.
Put sulphur into a ripe Bel (Aegle moramelous) and place it into an earthen vessel. Close it up and put it into a dust-heap for a month. Take it out and mix 1 rati of the essence with 1 tola of silver. There becomes fain-coloured gold, it should be dipped into the water urine) of cat or a kind of plant,). There takes place increase of its carat."
1. SRSS., Ch. 5. 36 2. Ibid.,
3. SRSS., Ch. 10. 29
4. SRSS., Ch. 11. 16
5. SRSS,, Ch. 11. 17
6. SRSS., Ch. 11. 16
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