Page:A History of Hindu Chemistry Vol 2.djvu/122

 The Tantric Period

(Continued).

Chemistry in Rasaratnakara of Nagarjuna.

[ In the rendering of Rasaratnakara of Nagarjuna and other Sanskrit texts we have often given only free translations. Such passages as are unnecessary repetitions or are not of sufficient interest to the general student of the history of Chemistry have been left out ]

CHAPTER 1.

I shall now speak of the puriﬁcation of the important rasas* (minerals).

What wonder is it that rftjevarta digested with the juice of Acacia sima converts silver of the weight of one guﬁja into one hundred times 'its weightibf goltiof the lustre of the rising sun? I
 * Regarding uses see Vol. I, p.