Essay name: Alchemy in India and China
Author:
Vijaya Jayant Deshpande
Affiliation: Panjab University / Department of Chemistry
The thesis "Alchemy in India and China" explores the comparative aspects of alchemy in these two countries, focusing on chemical and protochemical formulations while addressing why modern science developed in the West rather than in India or China. It briefly touches upon internal alchemy in China and the ritualistic tantra in India.
Chapter 6 - Transmission of Alchemical and Chemical ideas (Part 2)
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External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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Equal weights of poisonous water, sulphur and orpiment (Haribija), mixed well with the urine of goat, is to be smeared on copper-leaves. O Goddess! roasted in puta, it becomes gold of heavenly quality. .... (744) Thus the leaves of lead, smeared with the above product and roasted in "p奴ta" are turned into gold which resembles the colour of a cochineal. (745) This "Visodaka" or "poisonour water", which is described in the above-mentioned verses, is very much like the one supposed to be introduced to China by an Indian scholar in the seventh century AD. This episode of the Indian scholar in the Chinese court is discussed 18 by Needham. He quotes a passage from the book
FN. 17 continued
啶忇啶ぞ啶膏お啷嵿ぐ啶啶椸啶� 啶掂げ啷嵿げ啷�啶げ啶苦い啶掂ぐ啷嵿啶苦い啶� 啷�
[ekam膩saprayogena vall墨palitavarjita岣� |
] 18.
啶︵啶掂た啶粪啶熰さ啶班啶｀ぞ啶曕啶むた啶曕 啶︵啶灌じ啶苦う啷嵿ぇ啶苦ぎ啶掂ぞ啶啶ㄠ啶ぞ啶ㄠ 啷� [dvi峁ａ弓avar峁嚹乲峁泃iko dehasiddhimav膩pnuy膩n || ] 743 1
啶ㄠた啶啶︵啶� 啶椸え啷嵿ぇ啶曕啷嵿 啶灌ぐ啶苦が啷�啶溹啷嵿 啶むい啷嵿じ啶� 啶
[nibodaka峁� gandhaka帽ca harib墨ja帽ca tatsama m
] 1 啶呧啶距ぎ啷傕啷� 啶む 啶膏げ啶苦し啷嵿啶� 啶多啶侧啶掂お啶む啶班ぞ啶｀た 啶侧啶く啷囙い啷� [aj膩m奴ge tu sali峁ａ弓a峁� 艣ulvapatr膩峁噄 lepayet ] 174411
啶啶熰お啶距啶� 啶︵啶掂啶多た 啶︵た啶掂啶 啶さ啶むた 啶曕ぞ啶炧啶氞え啶 啷�
啶呧え啷囙え啷堗さ 啶掂た啶оぞ啶ㄠ啶� 啶ㄠぞ啶椸お啶む啶班ぞ啶｀た 啶侧啶く啷囙い啷� 啷�
啶啶熰啶� 啶溹ぞ啶え啷� 啶膏啶掂ぐ啷嵿ぃ啶 啶囙え啷嵿う啷嵿ぐ 啶椸啶 啶膏え啷嵿え啶苦く啶 [pu峁璦p膩kana deve艣i divya峁� bhavati k膩帽canam |
anenaiva vidh膩nena n膩gapatr膩峁噄 lepayet |
pu峁璭na j膩yane svar峁嘺m indra gopaka sanniyam ] 11 745 11
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啶班じ啶距ぐ啷嵿ぃ啶ㄠ啶侧啶�
[谤补蝉腻谤峁嘺苍补办补濒辫补
] 'Needham, Joseph (1), vol. 5, Pt. IV, p. 197.
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