Bahyadruti, Bāhyadruti, Bahya-druti: 8 definitions

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Ayurveda (science of life)

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Rasashastra (Alchemy and Herbo-Mineral preparations)

Source: Wisdom Library: Rasa-śāstra

Bāhyadruti (बाह्यद्रुति):—Twelfth of the eighteen Saṃskāra (special purification process). They are used to purify rasa (mercury) as per Rasaśāstra literature (Medicinal Alchemy), and are mentioned in texts such as the Rasaprakāśasudhākara. In Āyurveda, Saṃskāra refers to the “detoxification” process of metals and herbs. The Bāhyadruti-saṃskāra is mainly used for transmutational alchemical purposes. In other words: the last ten saṃskāras are sequentially used for the ends of transmutational and elixir alchemy. Bāhyadruti refers to the process called the ‘external liquefaction’ of mercury.

Source: Google Books: The Alchemical Body

Bāhyadruti is a phase for an alchemcial process, involving external processing and liquification.

Source: archive.org: History of Indian Science Technology (rasashastra)

Bāhyadruti (बाह्यद्रुति, “external liquefaction”) represents to the twelfth of eighteen alchemical purification processes of mercury (mahārasa, rasendra or pārada). A religio-philosophic base was given to mercury-based alchemy in India. Mercury was looked upon as the essence of God Śiva, and sulphur as that of Goddess Pārvatī.

Mercury had to undergo 18 processes (e.g., bāhyadruti) before it could be used for transforming either metals or the human body. A combination of male and female principles (i.e. mercury and sulphur) forming cinnabar or mercuric sulphide or even of mercury and mica, was supposed to be highly potent and was therefore consumed as a Rasāyana or medicine for increasing body fluids or vitality. The earliest mention of Rasāyana was found in Āyurveda which was probably composed by 8th or 9th century BC, since it was a part of Atharvaveda, the last of the four Vedas.

Unclassified Ayurveda definitions

Source: gurumukhi.ru: Ayurveda glossary of terms

Bāhyadruti (बाह्यद्रुति):—It is a mercurial process where materials are Added after Melting the material outside separately.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bāhyadruti (बाह्यद्रुति).—f. a process in the preparation of quicksilver.

Derivable forms: bāhyadrutiḥ (बाह्यद्रुतिः).

Bāhyadruti is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bāhya and druti (द्रुति).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Bāhyadruti (बाह्यद्रुति):—[=bāhya-druti] [from bāhya] f. ‘external solution’, a process in the preparation of quicksilver, [Sarvadarśana-saṃgraha]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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