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> — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.4) tatspṛṣṭaṃ hi mahāvyādhināśanaṃ dehināṃ bhavet / himācalādikūṭeṣu yadrūpyaṃ jāyate hi tat // > when touched, it destroys great diseases of embodied beings. / That silver which originates on the peaks of the Himālaya and other mountains > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.5) khanijaṃ kathyate tajjñaiḥ paramaṃ hi rasāyanam / śrīrāmapādukānyastaṃ vaṅgaṃ yadrūpyatāṃ gatam // > is declared by connoisseurs to be mine-born, a supreme rejuvenation therapy. / Tin that has turned to silver through being placed on the sandals of Śrī Rāma > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.6) tatpādarūpyamityuktaṃ kṛtrimaṃ sarvaroganut / \ ghanaṃ snigdhaṃ guru snigdhaṃ dāhe chede sitaṃ mṛdu // > is called pādarūpya; it is artificial and dispels all diseases. / \ / Dense, unctuous, heavy, smooth, white when burnt and cut, soft, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.7) varṇāḍhyaṃ candravatsvacchaṃ dāhe chede samaprabham / śaṅkhābhaṃ masṛṇaṃ sphoṭarahitaṃ rajataṃ śubham // > rich in color, clear like the moon, of uniform lustre when burnt and cut, / resembling a conch, smooth, free from blisters—such silver is auspicious. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.8) dāhe raktaṃ ca pītaṃ ca kṛṣṇaṃ rūkṣaṃ sphuṭaṃ laghu / sthūlāṅgaṃ karkaśāṅgaṃ ca rajataṃ tyājyamaṣṭadhā // > Red, yellow, or black when burnt, rough, cracked, light, / thick, and coarse—silver of these eight kinds is to be rejected. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.9) kaṭhinaṃ kṛtrimaṃ rūkṣaṃ vivarṇaṃ samalaṃ dalam / dāhe chede ghane naṣṭaṃ madhyamaṃ rajataṃ matam // > Hard, artificial, dry, discolored, full of dross, laminar, / \[and\] lost in burning, cutting, or hammering—such silver is considered mediocre. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.10) karoti tāpaṃ viḍbhedaṃ kṣayaṃ śuklabalāyuṣām / na śuddhaṃ na mṛtaṃ tāraṃ tasmācchuddhaṃ ca mārayet // > Silver that is neither purified nor killed causes burning sensation, diarrhea, / and loss of semen, strength, and lifespan; therefore, one should purify and kill it. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.11) \ nāgena ṭaṅkaṇenaiva drāvitaṃ śuddhimṛcchati / tāraṃ trivāraṃ nikṣiptaṃ taile jyotiṣmatībhave // > \ / Melted with lead and borax, it attains purification. / Silver dropped three times into oil of jyotiṣmatī, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.12) taptaṃ taptaṃ tārapatraṃ secayecchuddhim āpnuyāt / piśācasaṃbhave yadvā prakṣiptaṃ śuddhimāpnuyāt // > silver foil repeatedly heated and quenched, attains purification. / Or dropped into \[oil\] originating from piśāca, it attains purification. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.13) rajataṃ doṣanirmuktaṃ nāgottīrṇaṃ samāharet / śvetakumbhodbhave nīre ḍhālayetsaptavārakān // > One should take the silver freed of defects, extracted from lead, / \[and\] pour it seven times into water derived from śvetakumbha. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.14) \ kuraṇḍamunipuṣpotthasalilaiḥ saṃpramardayet / tārapatrāṇi liptāni puṭayecca vanotpalaiḥ // > \ / One should thoroughly grind \[it\] with the juice produced from kuraṇḍa and agasti flowers; / smeared silver leaves one should calcine with wild cow-dung cakes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.15) mriyate nātra sandehaḥ liptaṃ vā rasabhasmanā / amlavargapraliptena pūrvavatpuṭayogataḥ // > It is killed, there is no doubt here; or smeared with ash of mercury, / smeared with the sour group, by application of calcinations as before, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.16) mriyate tālakaṃ sūtaṃ vaṅgamamlena peṣayet / tārapatrāṇi saṃlipya puṭitvā bhasmatāṃ nayet // > it is killed. One should grind yellow orpiment, quicksilver, and tin with sour liquid; / smearing silver leaves and calcining, one should reduce it to ash. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.17) mriyate gandhayogādyair vaiṣṇavena vipadyate / \ snuhīkṣīraiḥ pacettāpyaṃ tārapatrāṇi lepayet // > It is killed by combinations of sulfur and the like; it is destroyed by copper pyrite. / \ / One should cook pyrite with spurge milk and smear the silver leaves; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.18) ruddhvā gajapuṭe paktvā pūrvoktaiḥ pācayetpunaḥ / catvāriṃśatpuṭairevaṃ pacettāraṃ mṛtaṃ bhavet // > sealing and cooking in an elephant-calcination pit, one should cook again with the aforementioned. / Calcinating thus for forty calcinations, the silver becomes killed. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.19) \ bhūdhātrīṃ mākṣikaṃ tulyaṃ pippalīṃ saindhavāmlakaiḥ / liptvā tārasya patrāṇi ruddhvā saptapuṭaiḥ pacet // > \ / Equal parts of bhūdhātrī and pyrite, pippalī, rock salt, and sour liquids— / smearing silver leaves, sealing, one should cook in seven calcinations. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.20) dravaiḥ punaḥ punaḥ piṣṭvā mriyate nātra saṃśayaḥ / \ likucadravasūtābhyāṃ tārapiṣṭīṃ prakalpayet // > Ground repeatedly with the juices, it is killed, there is no doubt here. / \ / With citrus juice and quicksilver, one should prepare an amalgam of silver. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.21) ruddhvādho gandhakaṃ dattvā mūṣāgarbhe nirudhya ca / svedayed vālukāyantre dinamekaṃ dṛḍhāgninā // > Confining it after placing sulfur beneath, and sealing it within a crucible, / one should foment it in a sand apparatus for one day with a strong fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.22) svāṅgaśītalatāṃ piṣṭiṃ sāmlatālena marditam / puṭeddvādaśavārāṇi bhasmībhavati rūpyakam // > When self-cooled, that paste, ground with orpiment and sour gruel, / one should incinerate twelve times; the silver becomes ash. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.23) \ mākṣikaṃ cūrṇaluṅgāmlamarditaṃ puṭitaṃ śanaiḥ / triṃśadvāreṇa tattāraṃ nirutthaṃ bhasma jāyate // > \ > Ground with pyrite powder and citron juice, and incinerated slowly, / by thirty repetitions that silver becomes an unrevivable calx. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.24) rāgaḥ syāt sarvalohānāṃ puṭādhikye na saṃśayaḥ / \ tārapattraṃ caturbhāgā bhāgaikaṃ śuddhatālakam // > A reddish luster will belong to all metals upon an excess of incineration, without doubt. > \ > Four parts of silver leaf, and one part of purified orpiment; > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.25) mardyaṃ jambīrajairdrāvaistārapatrāṇi lepayet / śoṣayedandhayettaṃ ca triṃśadvanotpalaiḥ puṭet // > it is to be ground with lemon juice, and one should coat the silver leaves. / One should dry it, seal it, and incinerate it with thirty wild cow-dung cakes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.26) caturdaśapuṭairevaṃ nirutthaṃ mriyate dhruvam / \ raupyapatraṃ caturbhāgā bhāgaikaṃ mṛtavaṅgakam // > By fourteen such incinerations, it is surely killed into an unrevivable state. > \ > Four parts of silver leaf, and one part of killed tin, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.27) athavā gandhabhāgaikaṃ lepyaṃ jambīrapeṣitaiḥ / ruddhvā tribhiḥ puṭaiḥ pācyaṃ pañcaviṃśadvanotpalaiḥ // > or one part of sulfur, should be smeared \[over them\] ground with lemon \[juice\]. / Having sealed it, it must be cooked with three incinerations using twenty-five wild cow-dung cakes. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.28) mriyate nātra sandeho gandho deyaḥ punaḥ punaḥ / \ rasagandhau samaṃ kṛtvā kākatuṇḍasya mūlakam // > It is killed, there is no doubt of this; sulfur should be added again and again. > \ > Having taken equal parts of mercury and sulfur, \[with\] root of kākatuṇḍa, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.29) mardayenmahiṣīkṣīraiḥ piṣṭiṃ tāṃ kṣālayejjalaiḥ / haridrāgolake kṣiptvā golaṃ hayapurīṣake // > one should grind it with buffalo milk; one should wash that paste with water. / Having cast it into a ball of turmeric, and casting that ball into horse dung, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.30) kṣiptvā dinaikaviṃśacca tadgarbhād uddharetpunaḥ / tatpiṣṭvā tārapatrāṇi lepyamamlena kenacit // > and having kept it \[there\] for twenty-one days, one should take it out again from its interior. / Having ground that, silver leaves are to be smeared \[with it\] along with some sour liquid. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.31) puṭair viṃśatibhir bhasma jāyate nātra saṃśayaḥ / bhasmanā hyamlapiṣṭena limpettāmramayaṃ kṣuram // > Through twenty incinerations it becomes ash, there is no doubt of this. / With the ash ground with sour liquid, one should smear a copper razor: > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.32) jāyate taṃ mṛtaṃ vidyādbhasma hāṭakatārayoḥ / \ raupyaṃ snigdhaṃ kaṣāyāmlaṃ vipāke madhuraṃ rasam // > one should know that it is killed when it becomes calx of gold and silver. > \ > Silver is unctuous, astringent, and sour, sweet in post-digestive effect, > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ### [2.3.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3.33) vayasaḥ sthāpanaṃ śītaṃ lekhanaṃ vātapittajit / vṛṣyaṃ rucikaraṃ balyaṃ jaṭharāgnipradīpanam // > an establisher of youth, cooling, scraping, conqueror of vāta and pitta, / an aphrodisiac, appetite-producing, strengthening, and a stimulator of the digestive fire. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda~en-mt.2.3.1) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (5) - [Rasendracūḍāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasendracudamani.14.26) — Somadeva (alchemist), Sanskrit - [Rasaratnākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasaratnakara.1.8.34) — Nityanātha Siddha, Sanskrit - [Rājanighaṇṭu (Nighaṇṭurāja, Abhidhānacūḍāmaṇi)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.nighantu.namaguna.rajanighantu.13.14) — Narahari Paṇḍita, Sanskrit - [Rasendrapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.rasendrapurana.28.5) — Rāmaprasāda, Sanskrit - [Āyurvedaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.cikitsa.ayurvedaprakasa.28.90) — Mādhava Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.rasa.siddha.anandakanda.2.3) · Pramāṇa