Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

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

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portions is new, that much is to be taken and put it into them. After that, make the thorn piercing copper leaf, heat and quench it into salt and salammoniac 5 times. (There will be gold ?)
74. Rub oxide of arsenic tola 1 and grains (powder) of silver tola 1 in the juice of elephanto pus scaber (gojihva) up to 4 praharas. Next put the whole thing into a Dabaḍi (a pot) and give (put) layer of cloth and clay over it. Give fire of wild cow dung in a pit, measuring 1 cubic yard (gajaputa). On its getting cooled down, take it out. Mix (give) 1 māsā of the essence into 1 tola of copper. Next pour it into cowdung, then crush sal-ammoniac and salt (luna) together. O desirer of silver! smear the essence on the the copper leaf and heat it in fire. Next pour it into amalasara sulphur, even if there comes up blackness; make it hot and quench it with the juice of cirapoțika (a kind of plant). That goes to be thus: 1 tola of silver becomes new and pure. True. Gotakam is produced by the grace of god.
75. Chew the inner bark of Tectona grandis = Indian Tik tree (Teliyasag) in the mouth, take the sputum (or saliva) (out of it) into an oyster shell. (Take) sputam tola-1. Melt copper tola 4, when copper becomes watery, cast (spit) sputum or spittle into copper. There will be gold. True.
76. Melt gold tola-1, mix pure silver maṣā 3 into it. After getting it melted, make the molten thing cold. Make 10 leaves of that gold and give a smearing of the following medicines to them. Take sal-ammoniac ṭā 1, alum tā 2, powder (or a grain) of copper ta-3, Chloride of sodium tā-4, red ochre (geru = girimāti) tā 5, and rub them with water. Next smear the leaves of gold (with this mixture), give fire to these leaves slowly and slowly by putting dry wild cowdung cakes = Sr. into earthen pot sherd, three times. Again by this process smear the leaves with medicine; give fire of wild dry cowdung to these leaves in an earthen potsherd, (thikarā) three times slowly. Thus again smearing the leaves of gold, again give fire to them. Thus give sa-ammoniac and fire to three smearings or coatings. That is, gold will be marvellous.
77. The meaning of the gatha "Do ratta, do piyala" all these......... Combine together two māsas of copper, two maṣās of gold, four masas of silver and 4 or 8 maṣās of mineral calamine and crush and rubs them in a mortar without water. Take out the leaf of Davu (gāvu) which becomes red, while shooting forth. Crush that with the juice of betel leaf. Next put it into a crucible. Make a crucible of glass. Put the medicine into that crucible. By chewing together betel leaf, lime (Katho) and areca nut, put the spittle into the crucible, give a seal of glass into the crucible. Then wrap a piece of cloth soaked with spittle of betel leaf over the crucible.