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Sulphur (gandhaka) is listed among the mineral poisons that come from mines.

The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…

Introducing, from the scripture of the chief yogis, the processing of bija (gold), mica, tikshna iron, makshika and their essences (sattva) for binding gold-making mercury, the text first…

As an example of Samantabhadra's technical terms the editor explains Ratnatrayauṣadha: in ordinary usage it might mean a medicine made from three gems such as diamond, but in Jain doctrine…

Garlic, tagara, asafoetida, vacha, samudraphena, white durva, guduchi, bitter gourd, bimbi, neem, kalihari, trikatu, rock salt, all fragrant drugs, cardamom, white girikarni, bhutakeshi,…

The heartwood, exudate and bark of the cilla tree are poisonous (a variant reads billa). Arka, tilvaka (rendered lodh) and all kinds of snuhī are latex poisons. Orpiment, sulphur, realgar,…

Bija is a metal that, put into another metal while it is being cooked, gives it its own colour, and pure gold and silver are also called bija; garbhadruti is making what mercury has…

The verse speaks of bright red lamps with layers dyed with lac (alaktaka); the commentary says the lamp vessels are first smeared with lac juice, the sulphur group and the poison group…

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…

Entries 19–29 of the ग section, from गोशृंग (बबूल) to गुंजा (घुंघुची, also a weight of one ratti). They include गोक्षुर (गोखरू), गौर (white mustard, करंज, सिरस, खदिर, हरताल, gold and the…

Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.103), attributed to Pūjyapāda: Kālāgnirudra rasa, also called Agnituṇḍī, for the eighty vāta disorders. Purified mercury, viṣa, sulphur,…

Quoted formula (Basavarājīya, 6th prakaraṇa, p.110), attributed to Pūjyapāda: Gandhaka rasāyana for giddiness and other vāta disorders. Six pala of powdered sulphur, the three fruits,…

Quoted formula from the Nityanātha work, called told by Pūjyapāda: Caṇḍabhānu rasa for fevers. Mercury, with sulphur three times its weight, a measured amount of amṛta, tīkṣṇa, tāla, gagana…

The editor says Samantabhadra, earlier than Pūjyapāda, wrote a Siddhānta Rasāyana Kalpa of 18,000 verses, now largely eaten by insects, using Jain technical terms and codes:…

The editor says Samantabhadra also gives the quantities for preparing medicines in codes based on Jain doctrine. For rasasindūra the text reads 'sūtaṁ kesari-gandhakaṁ mṛga…': each…

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,…

A footnote defines vida as the substances combined to digest (jirna) any metal swallowed by mercury: alkalis, sour substances, sulphur, cow urine, salts and the like, and quotes a verse to…

Lamp vessels are smeared with lac juice and the sulphur and poison groups ground in breast milk; mercury mixed with gold bhasma, tied in a fine cloth, is placed in the vessel, and the lamp…