Ancient Indian System of Rasayana Suvarnatantra: A Treatise on Alchemy/Rasayana
Palit, Chittabrata & Dasgupta, Nupur
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Book ID : 36048
ISBN-10 : 81-7835-692-9 / 8178356929
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7835-692-1 / 9788178356921
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2009
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
163p., Figs., Plts., Bib., Index, Ref., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
This book has grown out of a UGC Major Project on Pharmacy in the Sanskrit Treatises on Rasayana in Eastern India awarded to the Editors in 2005. Rasayana, a sub-discipline of Ayurveda, gradually got transformed into Alchemy, the protoscience preceding Chemistry. In this monograph, an obscure text, the Suvarnatantra of the 16th century has been deciphered. The original Sanskrit text, its translation and interpretations by the research team have been incorporated. The introductory essay deals with the whole history of Rasayana in ancient India and the epilogue gives the colonial consequences of the mutation of Ayurveda.
