Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c43.s3.t4.27

v2.c43.s3.t4.27

Maṇimālā recorded (362-364) certain outstanding statements about emerald which ‘illumines a place when exposed to the sun; which is not extremely green, yet the splendour of which looks like the lightning’s play among fresh grass’ (MM, 362-363) and lastly ‘the sight of which instills the liveliest pleasure into the mind’: यश्च मनसः प्रसादं विदधाति निरीक्षित मतिमां च तत् मरकतम् महागुणम् इति रत्नविद्यां मनोवृत्तिः yaśca manasaḥ prasādaṃ vidadhāti nirīkṣita matimāṃ ca tat marakatam mahāguṇam iti ratnavidyāṃ manovṛttiḥ (MM, 364; also RP, 160 and GP, 1.71.12-15)