Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

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

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9... Purify zinc by melting it. If mineral calamine į sr. is melted, there remains 14 pāup (pai) from 1-9 (2 1/4) of (the combination). Take the juice of the root of Ajhijhārā (a kind of Vanaspati) 1}. Srs, mix 3 srs. of the juice of the root colocynth with it. Melt mineral calamine in an earthen pot. After melting, give coyā (drops) by putting the previous juice and give it fire of the wood of poplar leaved fig tree (= Ficus religiosal) and it is to be stirred up with a wooden piece of pipal. The essence is accomplished. Melt together these three-copper, silver, and the essence. There becomes silver (by the chemical action). If gold is light, by melting the same, if gadiyāna of the essence is given into 1 tola of gold, the weight increases. (27)
(10) Put Barāsa Karpur (Camphor from Java) tola-2 and mercury to. 1 into a plate. Give camphor under and over mercury. Cover mercury. Cover it up with a cup and seal it up with wax. Make dipāgni by putting it under, give fire of for 1 prahāra. All these will become the essence. Mix 1 rati of the essence into 1 tola copper. If 1 rati of the essence is taken with betel leaf, there will be an appetite of 10 Srs. (28).
. (11). Put Hirāvola (a kind of mineral ?) tola 2 into a plate, put mer
cury tola 1, give Hirāvola over it, put a cup over it and give a menamudrā (seal with wax) to it. (Then) pour water into the plate and make dipāgni to it for 1 prahara. Mix 1 rati of the essence into 1 tola of copper. Gold. (29). If pure essence-pai. 1 bhār is taken, there will be an appetite of 10 srs. of food. True. Thus Jalayantravidyā. (29)
(12). Bring the tuber of turmeric and mercury double than it. Make pill (Ball) by rubbing these two. Make it dry and bind it with the juice of Citrus lemon. Press its juice by cutting it into two piecess. Put the pill (goli) between these two pieces of citrus lemon. Place the second piece of it over the first one. Make a smearing over it with the powder of Udad (Phaseolus radiatus linn). Put it, on a piece of dry cowdung cake and give the second piece over it. Next give 1 or 2 pieces of dry cowdung, make fire. On its getting cooled down, take it out. That mercuey, getting swelled, becomes Patāsā (like) (a king sweel). If 1 rati of it is taken, there becomes an appetite. Mix 1 rati of the essence with 1 tola of copper. Gold. It is tested. (30)
(13). Rub all these together-mercury-tola 1, Oxide of arsenic-tola 1 and alum-tola 1 with curd for three days. Next put the lump (or paste) into çurd. Then take it out after 11 days and rub it in the juice of citrus