Rasachandamshu or Rasaratna Sangraha
author: M. S. Krishnamurthy
edition: 2013, Chaukhambha Visvabharati
pages: 512
ISBN-10: 9381301263
ISBN-13: 9789381301265
Topic: Rasashastra
Eight type of Metals
This page describes Eight type of Metals which is part of the Purva-khanda located on page 93 in the book Rasachandamshu (Rasaratna Sangraha) translated into English by M. S. Krishnamurthy. This 19th century book deals with Ayurvedic therapeutics and alchemical processes, belonging the branch of science known as Rasashastra (medicinal alchemy). This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Eight type of Metals” according to 233 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 1: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Ninety eight parts of silver, one part of gold, and a sufficient quantity of mercury give rise to a compound which serves to transform hundred times its weight of base metal into silver. Forty nine parts of silver, an equal quantity of pure copper, one part of lead, and one part of mercury produce a substance which can transform hundred times its weight of lead into copper....
Read full contents: Part 20 - Mercurial operations (18): Transformation of base metals into gold by mercury (bedhana)
Kautilya Arthashastra [by R. Shamasastry]
The heavier the ores, the greater will be the quantity of metal in them (satvariddhi)....
Read full contents: Chapter 12 - Conducting Mining Operations and Manufacture
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 3: Metals, Gems and other substances [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Importance of mercury in the killing of metals. (a) The killing of a metal with the help of incinerated mercury is the best. That with the help of vegetable drugs is the next in efficacy; that with the help of sulphur, etc. is still less efficacious; whereas that with the help of a metal having antagonistic properties is positively injurious. (b) Worms grow in the abdomen of the man who takes metals killed without the help of mercury....
Read full contents: Part 3 - Incineration of gold
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