Suvarna Raupya Siddhi Shastra

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

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Then put this powder into cowdung and get it dried up in the shade. Next put it into an earthen jar and seal it up; make fire, put it on fire. When burning stops, take it out. On washing ashes, the stones come out, Mix up the stones of the previous earth, then heat them together in a crucible. Next melt them; copper comes out (of them). (44).
(27). Make lump of 1 tola of mercury and 2 tolas of zinc. Next put 2 tolas of mercury into a silver ḍāvaḍi (small pot) and give a layer of clay and cloth (overi t), give it gajaputagni of 12 praharas. On its getting cooled down, take it out. Combine 1 1/4 masa of the essence with 1 tola of copper. (gold).
Take mercury pai. and zinc 1 1/4 srs, put oil into an iron pan. Melt zinc three times. Next melting it seven times in a hāḍamūsā (earthen crucible), quench it into the water of Triphala (Amalaki Haritaki and Vaheḍā). zinc will be purified. Next mix mercury with it, combine of them with pure silver. There will be a good combination (45).
(28) Give 22 putas of urine of tiger to mineral calamine-gadiyānā 1, borax tā 1, turmeric gadiyānā 1, Sovanarakhiu-Kāca (a kind of glass ?) ga. 1 and Malavi molasses ga. 12, get dried all medicines except molasses in the sunshine and pound them. Mix 2 gadiyānā of the powder (grain) of silver into them. Next put the whole thing into molasses and make lump, and melt it in a crucible up to 1 prahara. Gold; Silver-carat 10 or 11. Thus is the process of making gold (46).
(29) By crushing the leaf of zinc Sr. and Sambhara lūņa (salt of Sambara lake) 1 sr., give them layer by layer. Put them into an earthen pot, and a small piece of colth into its mouth; give a seal, on it; give it gajapuṭagni of 21 praharas; purify (wash) copper and mix 1 māsas of the essence into 11⁄2 tola of copper. There becomes silver. (47).
(30) Purify lead 1/4 sr., make a thin leaf of it. Next make collyrium (Kajali) of mercury-pai. 2 and sulphur pai 2 for 4 praharas. Then take a jar and give (put) a layer of cloth and clay (over it), spread out bhoḍala (leaf of raw mica ?) into it, one leaf under, one leaf over, large bhoḍalapatra 1, spread out surakhāra (a kind of salt) sr. over it, put the leaf of lead over bhoḍala; sprinkle collyrium over it, give again the leaf of lead, sprinkle collyrium, again, leaf again, collyrium, thus give (put) (them) layer by layer. Again, crush surakhāra 1/4 sr. (pāva) and give (put) it over the leaf of lead and press it; give (place) an earthen pot over it; give (put) 3 or 7 layers of clay and cloth over it (and) get it dried up. Fill sand into it put it on furnace, give it fire while increasing gradually for 8 praharas.