Ancient Indians achieved great progress in alchemy (the older form of chemistry). Earliest distillation of alcohol can be traced back to the archeological finds at Taxila. Ancient chemistry in India grew out of the early efforts to develop an elixir and to turn base metals into gold. Mercury and its elixirs were used in transmutation of the base metals into noble ones, as well as for purifying the body, rejuvenating it and taking it to an imperishable and immortal state. Out of the numerous alchemical texts, written between the ninth and the fourteenth century AD, some give alchemical ideas, while others are devoted to alchemy
Nagarjuna was the most prominent scholar in the field of Indian alchemy.
Rasashala, a typical alchemical laboratory of Nagarjuna is recreated in ‘Our Science & Technological Heritage of India’ gallery at National Science Centre, Delhi.Alchemical treatises of ancient India refer to various types of Yantras for different applications and one of them is tantravidya.
Nagarjuna(Metallurgist)
He was a famous alchemist who was born in 931 AD near the famous temple of Somnath in Gujarat. He made various efforts to convert base metals into gold. But though he could not succeed, the metals did have a yellowish brilliance which was the basis for imitation jewellery which is used even today. He wrote the Alchemical text Rasaratnakara, which was part of a larger text Rasendramangala. There were a number of other alchemical texts written in the 11th and 12th century like Rasopanishad and Rasarnava.
Medieval Alchemy
In this period, gold making and elixir synthesis were the two main characteristic streams of Alchemy. These two faces depicting the metallurgical and the physico-religious were used to convert base metals into nobler ones and also internally for rejuvenating and purifying the body and leading it to an immortal and imperishable state. Numerous texts have been written on alchemy between the 9th and 14th centuries AD.
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