A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c52.183

v3.c52.183

The Dhātuvāda 245 describes in fourteen verses methods to transmute base metals into gold. One of the substances employed is mahāmāmsa (śa-chen). 246 Kuṣṭha (ru-rta), which grows in the Himālaya, is depicted as a plant from the leaves of which drips a fluid having the colour of gold.