Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

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

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lemon for 4 praharas. Next put it into a sampuța (lid) and give if fire of cowdung, gentle fire of 4 praharas. On its being cooled down there becomes the essence. Mix 1 māsā of the essence with 1 cola of copper. There becomes silver (31).
(14). Rub sulphur pai. 5 with the juice of Kesuphul! (a kind of vanaspati) for 4 praharas. Next after 1 or 3 days put it into a bottle; give mūala(bhair) into its mouth. Keep it into the mouth of the second bottle. Put the mouth of the bottle in a pālāla Yantra and giving fire under it, take out (squeeze) oil. Smear that oil on the copper leaf, dry it up like pāpadi (thin crisp cake made of flour mixed with spices) on fire. Put 5 or 7 drops of oil on it. Gold (32).
(15) Having taken sal-ammomiac, rub it in the juice of Visakhāparā
i of vanaspati ?) for 4 praharas. Next make powder of it by crushing it Melt kathir (a kind of tin) and put sal-ammoniac into it. Sal-ammoniac will come up, remove it. Thus put sal-ammoniac 3 or 4 times. (There will be) silver (33).
(16) Take water of Kāthir (a kind of tin), put 1 māsā of it into 1 tola of copper by melting it, there becomes silver. Water dries up.
The means of making it soft is written:
By taking out the root of white Visakhāpraā, take its bark and get it dried up. Keep it by making its powder. Melt that which becomes phuta dhāta (metal) and spread that powder over it. It will be soft.
The substance is produced. True (34).
(17) Make pieces of Lūņiue Somala khāra (a kind of oxide of arsenic) tola 1, cook (ferment) it in a Dolikāyantra with the milk of she-goat. Mix the essence 1 māsā into 1 tola of copper. There becomes silver (35).
(18) Rub sulphur tola 1 and mercury tola 1 with the juice of Amaraveli (cassytha-filiformis) up to 1 day. Rub them in a plate with the wood of Limba (citrus lemon) in the shade. Do not expose it in the sunhine, do as such, hold it in the sunshine in caitra-vaišākh. Oil comes out of it. Smear it on the leaf of copper. (There becomes) gold. (36)
(19) Place kalahi (a kind of tin)-tola 2 and carbonate of potash (javakhāra) under and over, there is white cumin seed. Take out the juice of it. Go on giving juice to them till they are) quenched. Heat this combination, next heat it in a closed crucible. There becomes Siver. (37) 1. Flower of Butea frondosa = Saffron-coloured flowers.