Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

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

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orpiment (mixed) with the milk of Calotropis gigantea (arka), (they) are to be cooked with linseed oil for five days. That oil becomes Satavadhi (piercing hundred per cent) into silver, copper and lead to
convert them into gold.). 48. By making realgar fine, it is to be rubbed in a Khala (mortar) with
the juice of Sesbania glandiflora (Agastyapuşpa), and give puțas to tin infused with the juice of citrus medica with the powder of puri
fied realgar three times. It becomes gold-like (Kaladhauti) 49. Pyrites, lead, mercury and sulphur and cinnabar mixed with realgar are
to be rubbed together and to be roasted by 50 puțas (roastings) in fire. In
the act of killing of lead, there comes out silver with 100% piercing. 50. Kill mercury, sulphur, Kaneri realgar, orpiment, oxide of arsenic
(sasisomala) with the juice of Aristolochia bracteata; apply the essence
to silver, it becomes gold. It is said by Vitarāga (the Dispassionate). 51 The first letter is ka, the last letter is ka. Between them there lie two
letters, i. e. Kuravaka (Berleria cristata). Lead is killed with it, mercury
is dried up. The people eat (enjoy) (it) by dividing (it), 52. (Take) silver with equal portion of śvetakāca (with glass ?) and 100th
part of gold. There becomes pearl, the ornament of the gods, by
their combination with mercury. 53. (Combine) one part of tin, 2 parts of mercury. Mercury tā 1, tin tā
1 (?), lead tā 1, lac tā 2 (rālā - yellow resin) and symplocos racemosa tā 2, and give (them) 3 gajapuțāgnis, (3) fire roastings (in a pit measu
ring cubic yard). There becomes white lead or essence. 54. (Take ) six times of tin - pure and best, o pupil ! (I) say again and
again, (mix it up with ) lac and resin. (As a result ) there becomes (takes place) happiness ( divāli). If the essence does not become
silver, abuse me. 55. (Take ) one pala of milk of Ficus glomerata (Odumbara ), Calotropis
gigantea, Ficus Bengalensis (vața ), lac - pala 1, magnetic iron - palas 4. When (they are ) mixed together and cooked with the oil of linseed, their essence (is helpful) in killing mercury. It is called Madanamudrā.
56. If the drop of oil does not spread out in the water of a vessel of
Kānta iron, the smell of Ferula asafotida is generated in its water, the juice of Neem (nimba) generates bitterness in itself, if put in that vessel. (If) milk is boiled in it, it becomes high like the shape of an umbrella, it does not go down (fall) to the ground. Kānta iron is that which possesses this aforesaid characteristic (marks), not any other (things ).