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The term 'rasa' is in general reserved for mercury in the Suvarna Raupya-Siddhi-Šāstral and other Jaina?, Buddhist3 and Hiddat alchemical works, though it is equally applicable to a minerals or metallic Salt or prepared medicine. In the oldest Indian medical works like the Carakasamhitā and the Sušrutasambitā the liberal meaning of rasa is juice of fluid (or chyle) of to-day.
The Jaina medical text-tħe Kalyāņa Kāraka, also maintains the same view, regarding its meaning fuid of the body' by which blood, serum, etc., are engendered according to the metabolic processes, 10 The Susruta uses the term, Rasakriya'11 meaning fluid extract or concentrated decoction. It is found in the Jaina, 12 Bauddha13 and Hindu14 a chemical and medical 1. Suvarņa-Raupya-Siddhi-sastra Ch. 1.11, etc. 2. Rasaratna Samuccaya,
Māņikyadevasūri, Ch. II, 30 Rasa=Pāradaḥ (mercury) 3. Adhuna rasarājasya samskaran sampracakşahie)
Rasaratnasamuccaya, Vagbhat etc, ch. 11. 4. Yavanna harabijantu Bhakşayet paradam rasam, etc. .
Rasārņava. 5. Rasaratna Samuccaya Māņikyadevasūrich. 1. V. 5. (Maharasás &
uparasas) 6. Suvarna--Raupya-Siddhi-Šāstra.
See : "Atha Rasalohanam maranam” Rasaratnasamuccaya, Manikya. deva, Ch. 1. 32 ff. "Atha Kanakavajranāmā rasäh”, Rasaratnasamuccaya, Maņikyadeväsūri,
Ch.II. 35 8. See Carakasamhitā. 9. See Sušrutasamhitā. 10. "Rasadraktamitato mamsan māmsänmedah pravartate. Mocaso'sthi tato
majjā tasyāssūkram tatah prajāh." Hitahitadhyāya, Kalyāņakaraka
Ugrādityācārya P. 734. 11. Susruta, 12. SRSS.. Jinadattasuri, ch. 9.11. Rasaratnasamuccaya; Mānikayandeva sūrī,
ch. III. 42 13. “Rasam hemasamam mardya pīțhikā girijamdhakam/Dvipadırajani
rambhāṁ mardayet tamkaņānvitam!)... Divyadeha mavāpnuyāt/” Rasar
atnākara, Nāgāruna. 14. Yavanna Harabijantu bhakşayet pāradami rasam/ Tavattasya kuto
muktiḥ, piņņasya dharaṇam" Rasātņava; 28.
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