Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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15. Making pieces of both ubhinagā (a kind of lead ?) and ubhināgā (a kind of lead), give mercury below (them) and borax above (them). Caripata says, put on (golden) bangles.
16. (Take) orpiment, golden pyrites, sulphide of mercury, and realgar - all equal to the quantity of half part of mercury. Grinding (them) in a stone vessel or mortar (Khala), the whole thing is to be mixed up with the juice of Kākamāci (Solanum nigrum). (The whole thing) is to be cooked in an iron vessel for 3 praharas and smeared (on the metal leaf). Heard in the past, (it) becomes gold, the support of the travellers.
17. Killing lead in Haṭavilāsaṇini (a kind of vanaspati) and Anurata Nali (r) (a kind of Vanaspati Gandha Bhādāli) which is a medicine for dysentery), bind (fix) mercury by killing lead. Carpata says: (it) becomes gold.
18. Keep brass cooked in these two - Hāṭavilāsaṇini (a kind of Vanaspati) and varanarī (a kind of Vanaspati). Blackness of that brass is removed. Misery and poverty - all go away.
19. (Take) one part of tin, two parts of mercury. Blackness of these two
is washed away in the juice of Symplocos, racemosa. Natha says (that) there is always Divali (light of victory or success and hapiness).
20. Copper is to be killed with sulphur. Make it equal with or to cinnabar. The plates (leaves) of lead are to be smeared by rubbing them with the juice of citrus medica.
21. Lead is killed with three putas (roastings), like Vermilion (Sinduraganasannibham). One sixteenth part of it pierces into silver (and) silver gets converted into gold..
22. (An) old pinal (wood) which one gets hold of. Make powder (of it) by cutting (it into pieces) and crushing it, and then infuse or saturate the powder with the urine of a male ass. (Next) mix tin (with) Pistetia Itegirinia (Navangi = Kākaḍa-singi) (and) spreading Hogbid (Satoḍi Vanaspati).
23. Infuse silver - Trilocanacuṇaḍi with the juice of Calotropis gigantea. This is the cunadi (golden colour) of Nagarjuna, it does not get destroyed by a year.
24. Kill mineral calamine in salt, (then) rule over the four corners (of the world). Natha says "do not think (doubt) in mind. Misery of poverty will completely go away."
25. Befitting (Worthy) best (red) sulphur well- cooked in internal smoke becomes well-piercing thousand times into silver, copper or lead.