Text Book of Rasa Sastra
author: K. Rama Chandra Reddy
edition: 2010, Chaukhambha Sanskrit Bhawan
pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9788189986414
Topic: Rasashastra
Visa (6): Langali
This page describes Visa (6): Langali located on page 585 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 3: Metals, Gems and other substances [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
The following are considered upavisha (semi-poisons):—Snuhi, arka, langali, gunja, karabira, visha-musti, dhattura, jayapala, bhallataka, nirvisha, ativisha, ahiphena, and jaya (bhanga). These thirteen are also killers of life, if taken in excess. Rubbed with poisons (visha) and the semi-poisons (upavisha), mercury becomes deprived of its wings, and grows hungry. It is then able to swallow and digest metals (without increasing in weight). Purification of semi-poisons in general....
Read full contents: Introduction to Semi-poisons (upavisha)
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 4: Iatrochemistry [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
langali. These latter-mentioned articles, viz. alambusha to langali, should be boiled with four times their total weight of water, which is to be reduced by boiling to one fourth its original quantity. The first named drugs, viz. mercury to copper pyrites, should, as stated above, be subjected to bhavana with this decoction. This process is to be repeated for thirty times, and the compound rubbed each time, carefully. This medicine cures all sorts of sannipatika fever....
Read full contents: Treatment for fever (59): Sannipata-bhairava rasa
The Garuda Purana [by Manmatha Nath Dutt]
Suta said:—The god Langali took up the fat of the deceased demon king, scattered it with his plough-share over the countries traversed by the river Kaveri and the Vindhya mountain, as well as over the countries of Nepal and China and the tracts of land inhabited by the Yavanas. The scattered bits of fat were transformed into crystals which assume a white colour like that of conch shell or of the fibres found inside the stems of a lotus plant....
Read full contents: Chapter LXXIX - Tests of crystals
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[Preface]
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