Text Book of Rasa Sastra
author: K. Rama Chandra Reddy
edition: 2010, Chaukhambha Sanskrit Bhawan
pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9788189986414
Topic: Rasashastra
Yantra (14): Adhah Patana Yantra
This page describes Yantra (14): Adhah Patana Yantra located on page 80 in the book Text Book of Rasa Sastra composed by K. Rama Chandra Reddy. This book contains a collection of scientific articles based on the principles of Rasasastra (Rasashastra) and contains Sanskrit text of ancient literature, as well as modern English scientific documentation. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 1: Initiation, Mercury and Laboratory [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Mercury is to be rubbed with one-fourth its weight of powdered turmeric, and a sufficient quantity of the juice of kanya, and then sublimated in a Patana Yantra (an apparatus for the sublimation of mercury). This is what is called the utthapana or raising of mercury. Second process. Mercury is to be rubbed in the sun with lime juice, dried, and taken out. The remains of this mercury, incapable of being collected, if any, should be sublimated by means of a Damaru-yantra or Vidyadhara-yantra....
Read full contents: Part 6 - Mercurial operations (4): Raising of Mercury (utthapana)
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 2: Minerals (uparasa) [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Hingula discharges its essence in the shape of mercury, if subjected to sublimation, the sublimated mercury being allowed to be condensed in a water trough forming a part of the Tirjak-patana-yantra....
Read full contents: Part 6 - Essence of hingula
Vakyapadiya of Bhartrihari [by K. A. Subramania Iyer]
Dik (Direction, Space) is one but when we use expressions like urddhvam, adhah [adhas], tiryak, we are speaking about it as though it had divisions, knowing that it has none: urdhvam adhas tiryag ityekatve pi disham yathayatham vinivishtabhavanavisheshah sarvapraninah = All beings have an inner disposition to divide Dik (Direction, Space) which, though one, is regarded by them as being above, below, across and so on. ] The view that the sentence is nothing more than a collection of words and not an entity...
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