A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c51.s2.11

v3.c51.s2.11

ginning of the flourishing period of Indian alchemy, i.e., in his estimate, the period A.D. 900–1100. He assigns the Rasārṇava to the twelfth, the Rasārṇavakalpa to the eleventh century. The terminus post quem is in his view the date of the Rasaratnākara (i.e., in his opinion, the eighth or ninth century), because one of the verses of this work forms part of the Rasārṇavakalpa; ²⁸² this argument can be disregarded, because the pertinent verse is not from the Rasaratnākara, but from the Rasendramaṅgala.