A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.666

v2.c30.666

619 P. Rāy and H.N. Gupta (1965: 116) regard upasvedana (Ci.1².14) as a special process of distillation and pātana (Ci.26.59) as distillation or precipitation. P.V. Sharma (ed. and transl. Carakasamhitā, 769) is of the opinion that a kind of pātālayantra is described at Ci.1².14. 620 The term bhasman is found at I.5.31 and 12.28; Ci.25.118. 621 This term has erroneously been translated as mercury in the Arthaśāstra (see R.P. Kangle, 1965: III, 71–72). 622 See the translation of P.V. Sharma. See also S.K. Śarmā (1992): I, 5. Rasa is interpreted as mercury in this passage by S. Ārya (1984: 21), Gaṇanātha Sena (1924: I, 10), Gaṅgādhara, the Gulabkunverba team, Kaviratna, R.K. Sharma and Bhagwan Dash. These authors take nigṛhīta as an alchemical technical term; S. Ārya expressed as his opinion that the preparation of kajjalī is described; Gaṇanātha Sena claimed that the verse is about the preparation of makaradhvaja; Gaṅgādhara interpreted nigṛhīta as mārita; Brahmānanda Tripāṭhī (ed. II) assumes that nigṛhītarasa is the same as pāradabhasman. 623 Interpreted as mercury by Jejjata and Gaṅgādhara and in part of the translations. 624 This verse is identical with A.s.U.30.80 = A.h.U.25.61cd–62ab, Siddhayoga 44.55, and Cakradatta, vraṇasotha 101. A variant of Ca.Ci.25.116b (hemakāntārasottamamaiḥ reads hemakālayasottamamaiḥ. P.V. Sharma adopted this variant in his edition; Kaviratna also preferred it.