Text Book of Rasa Sastra
author: K. Rama Chandra Reddy
edition: 2010, Chaukhambha Sanskrit Bhawan
pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9788189986414
Topic: Rasashastra
Yantra (16): Kachchapa Yantra
This page describes Yantra (16): Kachchapa Yantra located on page 81 in the book Text Book of Rasa Sastra composed by K. Rama Chandra Reddy. This book contains a collection of scientific articles based on the principles of Rasasastra (Rasashastra) and contains Sanskrit text of ancient literature, as well as modern English scientific documentation. 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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Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 1: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
The mercury is thus to be exhausted with eight times its weight of gold or silver, by means of a Jala-kachchapa-yantra, Sthala-kachchapa-yantra, tuber, and hard crucible for three days each. The mercury thus prepared, is to be solidified with divya (divine) drugs, and becomes the giver of wished for objects....
Read full contents: Part 19 - Mercurial operations (17): Dyeing of mercury (ranjana)
The Garuda Purana [by Manmatha Nath Dutt]
Makara and Kachchapa are the two Tamasik (pervaded by the quality of ignorance) Nidhis. One, bearing the mark of Kachchapa, does not confide in any one and does not eat; nor does he give anything to any one. That singular person, bearing the mark of this Niddhi, fills the earth with treasures. A person, bearing the mark of the Rajasik (pervaded by the quality of darkness) Nidhi Mukunda, becomes the collector of kingdoms....
Read full contents: Chapter LIII - Traits of conduct of men marked by the several kinds of Nidhis
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 5: Treatment of various afflictions [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
This presupposes a knowledge of all the eighteen different kinds of mercurial operations i.e., the whole science of mercury as known to the ancient Indians (See Vol, 1 of my Rasa-jala-nidhi) and specially the knowledge of such apparata as Nabhi-yantra, Jala-yantra, Kachchapa-yantra. etc., the invention of which has been attributed to such ancient chemists, as Nandi (a mythical person), Shambhu, author of Rasarnava, Nagarjuna, author of Rasa-ratnakara, etc....
Read full contents: Part 25 - Ar-Razi and the Indian knowledge of metallic chemistry
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