A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c59.385

v4.c59.385

1185 The three types of pātana (2.56); the nature of the relationship between mercury and sulphur (2.100–101); the preparation of gandhakataila (2.339–340); the preparation of abhraka-bhasman (2.371; this quotation is also found in the Rasakāmadhenu); the eight lohas, three kṛtrimalohas, upaloha, mahāloha, loha extracted from the śilagrāma, and loha extracted from sphaṭika (3.1–4); the preparation of the bhasman of gold (3.18–19); the preparation of the bhasman of tin (3.117); the properties of purified and killed iron, as opposed to those of impure, not yet killed iron (3.194); the purification of various kinds of iron (3.199–201); the purification of zinc (3.278); an eulogy of the physician able to prepare the bhasman of each of the eight metals and to prescribe these substances correctly (3.285–286); the properties of unpurified and purified (hari)tāla (4.111); the disorders caused by unpurified manaḥśilā (4.143); the eight (actually seven) mahārasas (4.148); the eleven uparasas (4.151); the potency of a sattva and a druti, in comparison with the original substance (4.335); the conversion of sattvas into a bhasman (4.342); the poison called śṛṅgī, its types, characteristics and uses (4.521–522); the eight poisons used in processing mercury (4.526); the nine gems (4.644); the nine gems associated with the nine grahas (4.646–647); the properties of coral (vidruma) (4.663–665); the purification of pearls, etc. (4.695).