Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v2.c45.s1.16

v2.c45.s1.16

RRS contains a wide-ranging list of implements and equipments to be used in the alchemical laboratory (chapters 5 and 7). Several kinds of crucibles and furnaces (mūṣā, koṣṭhi, puṭa) were described (chapters 5, 9 and 10). The author, Śrī Vāgbhaṭa, openly acknowledged that his predecessor, Somadeva had collected most of the technical terms and their lucid descriptions from the earlier texts of Rasaśāstra, and thus ‘prepared a garland of jewels to be worn in an assembly of scholars’: