Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

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

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53. Melt 1 Väla of copper and 2 vālas of gum (gund) of the fruit of Giramālā (purging cassia) together. Next put milk of Kșirani (Gāmbhāri = arkapuspa-dughhikā = Euphurabia pilulifera) into that mixture. There becomes gold.
54. Make the leaf of tin (Kalahi,-1 sr. as thin as thorn-piercing. Next put it into an earthen pot and pour the juice of citrus lemon on it by pressing up to part 1 with 150 citrus lemons. Next keep the leaf by washing. Then make fine powder of lime of oyster shell by crushing it. Then make a cup by making a hole into the main root of the wood of Sālar (Shora rofusta). Then give the powder of lime of oyster shell under and over the leaf, give it layer by layer. By closing the mouth of the cup, put (give) a layer of cloth and clay. Give it gajapuțāgāni (cakes) with fire of dung dry with cakes (of, goat). On its getting cooled down, take it out. There becomes silver. True.
55. Make Dhānyābhral (mica combination with paddy 3) or a kind of mica of svetābhraka (white mica), cook it by putting into the juice (milk) of the ripe leaf of Kantāli Thohara (Milk's Hedge = Euphorbia Tragogona). Put milk pai 4 and mercury tā 9-this much. There will be pill of mercury. True-3.
56. If mercury pai. 1 is rubbed (or reduced to paste) with these twothe juice of Utaktā (Thistle = Simhalı pipali = Brahmadandi) pai 1 and that of the tuber (gātha) green turmeric pai. 1 bhār, there will be butter (of mercury), i.e. it will be soft like butter.
57. Take mineral calamine tola 1 1/4 and cook (ferment) it by putting it into the urine of goat-Urine sr., cook it with gentle fire. Next dry it up by taking it out. Grind it finely and put 2 māsās; it becomes roundish at the time of grinding (or crushing); put (it) and grind (it), then put it into an earthen crucible and put into it (crucible) copper 3 māsās by purifying it. Do it thus in oil, butter milk and cow's urine. Put that copper (into the crucible), put (giva) a layer of cloth and clay over the crucible again by closing its mouth. Heat it in coal up to ghadis 2 or 3, (there becomes)
gold.
58. Thus pour the same into a crucible twice or thrice. If stirred up (or turned round) there becomes best gold (aştāpada).
59. Rub the juice of Sarāpumkhā pai 5 and mercury pai 2 for two days. (The whole thing becomes like) white butter. Take milk of shegiving the first birth, before the suckling of her milk by the new born calf. Cook mercury bhăr and tin (Kathir) pai, bhār of each into that putting them into it. If milk pai 4 and mercury tā 9 are fermented, gotakao (pill of mercury) is accomplished. 1. Mica mixed with paddy grains and reduced to powder, tied in a piece of cloth and
suspended in sour gruel and then passed through linen is known as dhanyabhra.