Mercury and rejuvenating preparations
रसरसायनसिद्धाधिकार · उत्तरतंत्र
The twenty-fourth chapter (pariccheda) begins here. From the next page on its running head names it the section on mercury and rasayana accomplishment (rasarasayanasiddhadhikara).
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Headings from the book in reading order. Open a topic for its summary and the knowledge it refers to.
Bowing to the Jina, lord of the three worlds and renowned, who removes the pride of those who lack the chief wealth (the commentary: right faith, samyaktva), expounder of the whole of…
Protecting the body well increases life span, and with life and body the strength of the senses grows; for one who lacks life and bodily strength all wealth is useless, while one who has…
Mercury (rasa, parada) is also called rasaraja; through its special process of transfer with metals, which the commentary explains as jarana and similar processes with mica and other…
Swooned (murcchita) mercury is said to destroy many bad diseases, killed (mrita, bhasma) mercury to bring wealth, grain and enjoyment, and mercury bound by the stated method (baddha),…
The twenty-fourth chapter (pariccheda) begins here. From the next page on its running head names it the section on mercury and rasayana accomplishment (rasarasayanasiddhadhikara).
Mercury ground with old jaggery becomes swooned (murcchita). It is killed (made into bhasma) with the juice of wood-apple fruit, and quickly also with gobandhana, the sticky juice of…
The patient takes killed mercury daily, according to the measure of the doshas, rubbed with gold, in well-boiled milk with jaggery; afterwards woman's milk is given as nasya and the body is…
Mercury bound by the proper method (baddha rasa) is rasayana. Mercury processed with other metal groups containing rasa is not to be eaten, since the text says eating it gives rise to…
The physician who knows the texts on binding mercury should begin it furnished with chief attendants, all the needed equipment, wealth and devotion to the guru, and always worshipping the…
For binding mercury, a house (rasashala) with the qualities given in vastu-shastra and very secret is first to be built in an auspicious direction, in the bright fortnight of the sun's…
After worshipping the Jina, the presiding deities, the lords of the yakshas, Ambika and the yakshi Kushmandini, reciting the five-salutation mantra 24 times and taking the preliminary…
Yellow mica, patalika and patuvajraka are ground with rock salt, borax and the three pungents in punarnava juice, cooked in kanji, melted in a crucible, ground with gold powder and mixed…
Mercury joined with an equal measure of sara is said to pierce (vedhaka) a tenth part; with three times the sara it pierces a hundred, and joined with rasa-sara a thousand. The commentary…
To strengthen (brimhana) the mercury it is always made fire-resistant by tapana, vasana and kasana: rock salt, orpiment, Multani earth and grain husk are ground thick with juices, raisins…
The first sarana is said to make the mercury a hundred times more powerful, pratisarana a thousand times and anusarana a hundred thousand times (the commentary: a lakh). Mercury processed…
Each process gives mercury a quality: steaming (svedana) makes it intense, grinding (mardana) frees it of impurities, processing with metals makes it strong, digestion (jirna) makes it…
Thus the eight great processes for perfecting mercury have been told; by them the mercury becomes pure like the siddhas and like a living being, with great power, and is to be regarded as a…
In the juice of the five plants sarpakshi, sharavarini, sahachari, patha and kakadani (the commentary: sarahati-gandani, sarpata, yellow katasaraiya, patha and kakadini) mercury does not…
The juices of five plants, kanta, meghaninadika, shravanika, tambula and sankshirini (the commentary: musta, palasha, gorakhmundi, betel and milky-sap trees), are said always to make…
Matsyakshi, girikarnika, shikhishikha, jangharuha and kshirini (the commentary: machheci, white kinihi, shikhi, kalihari, janghavriksha and milky-sap trees) are said to bring about the…
Perfected mercury with mica powder, joined with gold (the commentary: gold bhasma), becomes steady in fire, and one who eats this swooned nectar is said to gain quickly imperishable vigour,…
One pala of ghee, two pala of mercury and four pala of milk are cooked in an iron vessel on a mild fire of husk until all the milk is consumed and only ghee remains; the text says this ghee…
Perfected mercury that has been tested for steadiness in fire is taken (the commentary: in a measure like the fine flies spread in the sky) and placed on the ground; a little of it is then…
The lamp vessels are first smeared with lac juice and the sulphur and poison groups ground in breast milk; mercury mixed with gold bhasma is tied in a fine cloth and placed in the vessel,…
Having described the bound, purified and perfected king of mercury, the text names the drugs for its transfer (sankramana): beeswax mixed with svarnamakshika, crow dung, nalika (a kind of…
The closing verse calls the work a drop drawn from the great ocean of scripture that came from the mouth of the Jina, full of waves of all substances and principles, with two shining shores…