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Some portions of the Jaina alchemical works have particularly been devoted to mineral preparation87 but it seems that they have been borrowed chiefly from some other Indian works. The Jaina MS. the SuvarnaRaupya-Siddhi-Sastra, MS. the Rasaratna-Samuccaya, etc. have dealt with the preparations of medical tinctures88 and prescribed mercury treated with some other minerals as remedy for many diseases89 as found in Arkaprakasa of Ravana, Bhavaprakāśa, etc.
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The main objective of alchemy as pointed out by the Jainacaryas was to show the way for the destruction of all sins (or evils)-poverty, diseases and old age.90
87 SRSS, ch. VIII 1; ch. X; ch. XIV, etc.
88 Ibid., ch. VIII 1; ch. X; ch. XIV particularly.
89 See Arkaprakasa, Bhavaprakasa, Vide Hindu Chemistry, p. 162. 90 SRSS, ch. II. (Commentary).
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