Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

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

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to be put (given) over it (kulhadi.) Then square pit is to be dug. On filling (putting) dry pieces of wild cowdung into it and holding that earthen pot (Kulhadaṁ) in it. Litfire (to the cowdung) on all sides. When all things get cooled down, take out th> earthen pot (Kulhadi). By this process there takes place. the end of the fruit Kalka (essence), vāla 1 should be put into 1 tola of copper. With the reference to the 2nd gāthā of the 1st chapter :
Dhyānāditi means here sampradāya (Sect), as for example, Jinah-Krsna, īša–īšvara, i. e. haritāla pāradau (orpiment-mercury) born (generated from) of them. (Krşņa = Hari = haritālạ=orpiment; īsa = Išvara = pārada (mercury). Of them thus 0 Jinesa ! bhavinah (mercury), everywhere 'tas' pratyaya is applicable; 'tayordhyānāt' means niscalikara nāt = by fixation of them (orpiment and mercury); tivram means Cinnabar and a class of poison. Now, anala means fire, by the contact of which the classes of metal, pure copper, iron and lead get converted into gold (or goldness)-by doing what? By removing the blackness of Bhavinah (mercury), by what moment (Kenaksanena) = with the juice of black datura meta (black thorny apple), paramiti = (in the sense of) again. Then again, by doing what ? Vihāya = präpayitva (causing attainment), ātmadeśāntariṁ = deham (body); again by doing what ?, (by) the saturation of the juice of medicine called pathari (upalabhāva).
The process of purification of copper should be known from Gurvāmnāya.
By this explantion ‘Kalyāņaṁ' supported by Kalyāṇamandiramiti stotra by name, is Kankam = hemam (gold) (See Visva 2). With reference to the gātha 7 of the 1st chapter :
Do ratteti' - means (by) bringing taliya borax and calamine and
put 4 - 4 - pieces of each of) borax and calamine into the brinjal on all sides. Give seven chavalamvati bhāvanās (saturations) to that brinjal with 4 maund of urine of she buffalo heifer, bring afresh (new - new) bringals 'seven times. Then take out the calamine from inside of the brinjal. Do it in such a way that the pieces of calamine do not break into this brinjal. They should be taken out as unbroken (pieces). After seven saturations calamine is to be crushed (ground). Thus (is) the accomplishment of essence (Kalamkasiddhi).
After that, copper - 2 parts, silver - 2 parts and Dvādaśam, Suvarna (12 carat gold) bhāga - 4 parts are to be melted (together). After melting them all - vælas 8, put (place) that (above mentioned) essence into 8 vālās of these melted metals. There becomes gold. It is surely experienced (3) (1).