Rasratna Samucchay

Author(s): Manikyadevsuri
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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Pārsvadeva sūri, who is comparable to the ocean of Milk. Mahārasas (Major or Superior Minerals).
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Mica (abhraka), spipel ? (a mineral resembling diamond) (Vaikrānt), copper pyrites (mākşika), a (vi) mala (a variety of pyrites), opal or blue vitriol (sasyaka), bitumen (adrija) etc. are Mahārasas (Major minerals), while a medicinal earth-possibly magnesium or sodium sulphate (Kamkuştha), sulphur, (gandha), collyrium (anjana), red ochre (gairika), realgar (manaḥśilā) and orpiment (tālaka), etc. are Uparasas (subsidiary or inferior minerals). These are the views (of the alchemists)
The following metals should be known respectively or successively by the names: copper (tāmra), silver (tāram), brass (pittala). lead (nāga), gold (hema), tin (Vamga), iron proper (tikşņa), bell-me al (Kāṁsyaka), alloys (vaţtaloha), sūrya, etc., Khecara, etc.
7. Poisons-a kind of poison (hālāhala), Aconitum ferox
(Vatsanāga), poison-pita (yellow) Site (black), and Siktu( ) are sthāvara Vişas (non-moving), while poisions born (or produced) in snakes and seas are Jaingama Vişas (moving poisons). Nāgajam=poison born in Snake, Abdhijātāni=Udadhipheno (=jalāgni) (Vadavāgni) (fire (poison ?) born in water).
Eight Kinds of Bile
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There are eight kinds of bile, viz. bile of fish, that of man, that of peacock, that of buffalo, that of sheep, that of cow, that of horse, that of elephant generated in their respective bodies. Vasa (fat) produced from frog, fish, deer, cow, buffalo and goat are good in the process of chemical action (Rasakarma).
The trees having yellow, red, black and white coloured flowers are useful in the process of Alchemy (Chemistry), its pure parts should be taken by Rasajñas (know of Mercury