Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

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

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66. Grind Barlaria prionitis (Dilawāli Kuranda) fine, filter it in a piece of cloth, rub it with varnish oil (rogan) for 2 or 3 days. Next put it into a thaliyantra (a kind of apparatus). It is Menamudrā (the process of making wax.)
66x Make copper leaf purified and quench it in horse-urine by making it red in fire) for 21 times. Next put it into Chāchi lūna (salt) for 1 prahara and wash it. Thus putting new and new chachi lūna, (repeat the process for 21 days. Next rub it for seven days. Keep it by dipping it into the juice of ginger. Quench that copper by making it hot for 7 or 14 or 21 times. Thus know the process of making copper purified.
67. Give 7 puțas (roastings) of the juice of brinjal to oxide of arsenic. Next give 7 saturations (bhāvanās) of gobhi (Euphantopsus Scaber) to it. Then give 1 māsā of the essence into tola of copper by melting it. Copper becomes white. Combine į of silver, (it is) good (Śrikāra). . 68. Rub oxide of arsenic and mercury each equal portion with pulp of seed of castor for 1 prahara, give the tablet of 1 māsā of the essence into copper 1 tola; combine į of silver into it. Silver.
69. Take oxide of arsenic-1 sr. and combining together these twowater curd-2 srs. and the juice of citrus lemon sr. go on putting or pouring the juice little by little on oxide of arsenic into a pot with an iron spoon and give fire under it, cook it by Bhālāgni (fire quantum for cooking rica). Thus give it puța for 42 days, in 2 srs. of curd-water and į sr. of citrus lemon. On the fourth day or in fourth puța (roasting), rub it (oxide of arsenic) alone one day for 1 or 2 praharas. That is, oxide of arsenic is accoplished. Stir it up with the spoon of sisam wood; bind (put on) gloves on hands; do not take smoke in the eyes. Next, it is produced. Then put 2 māsās of the essence into 1 tola of copper. Make pills of silver māsā 1. Melt copper and put pill (of silver.), next again there will be silver. Next, by putting it into a bottle, hang it on. If there becomes thuthadi (?) (there will be) silver. True.
70. Bring sal-ammoniac, take an earthen pot of the shape of a water jar. First spread out lime (Kalicūno = lime of snails shell) in the form of a circle, spread out sal-ammoniac on that (lime). Make a border (Pālisi), give time on that, give fire below (the earthen pot). When sal-ammonic gently gets bubbled, give lime into it. When the bubbling stops, then it gets cooled down, take it out. Crush or rub the whole thing and put it into phūkanā (a kind of vessel ?) and close its mouth. Keep it into hot water. Make fire below the pot. Take it out by keeping it for 1 or 2 ghadis. Put lime (Kalicu 20) into one pot. Into that put the water of sal-ammoniac, which is there from Phkuana, into lime, give a seal into the mouth of the