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2 Compare on the contents: Atrideva (1961): 110–113; S. Ārya (1984): 68–75; Satyaprakāś 464–565; V. Śukla I, 179–181. See on special aspects: A.K. Biswas (1987). 3 Many Indian treatises attribute amazing properties to mercury; Brahmagupta, Bhāskara, and other astronomers thought that this substance can overcome inertia and used it in constructing perpetual motion machines (ajasrayantra) (see S.R. Sarma, *1986–87b and 1992; S.R. Sarma and Y. Sahai, 1995); Bhoja credited mercury with the property of overcoming gravity (Samarāṅgaṇasūtradhāra 31.95–100; see also V. Raghavan, 1956). 4 This belief is alluded to by non-medical writers, for example, Bhartṛhari and Bāṇa (see S.R. Sarma and Y. Sahai, 1995: 150–151). 5 See on the myths concerning the origin of mercury: S.R. Sarma and Y. Sahai (1995). 6 See for a survey of mercury in Indian medicine: D. Joshi (1979). 7 See on this chapter: D. Joshi (1991a): 70–79. 8 See on this chapter: D. Joshi (1991a): 113–129. 9 See on this chapter: D. Joshi (1991a): 154–181; S.R.N. Murthy (1979a), (1991). 10 See on this chapter: D. Joshi (1991a): 233–265. 11 See on this chapter: D. Joshi (1991a): 281–285. 12 See on this chapter: D. Joshi (1991a): 298–301. 13 See on this chapter: D. Joshi (1991a): 326–334. 14 See on this chapter: D. Joshi, IJHS 26, 3, 1991, 348–357. 15 See on this chapter: D. Joshi, IJHS 26, 4, 1991, 471–477. 16 See on this chapter: D. Joshi, IJHS 27, 2, 1992, 215–221. 17 Compare on the kakāras: Pāradasamhitā 39.134–139. 18 See on ārogyavardhanī guṭikā (20.87–93): R.R. Desāī (1980): 178–180; M.L. Dwivedi, S.V. Tripathi and H.S. Dwivedi (1984); B. Patgiri et al. (1999); S.K. Sharma (1991); S.C. Shukla et al. (1990); V.D. Śukla and R. Pāṭhak (1981). 19 See, however, the list of authors on rasaśāstra at the beginning of the Rasaratnasamuccaya; see also the authorities mentioned in the chapters borrowed from the Rasendracūḍāmaṇi. 20 Rasaratnasamuccaya 3.42 (= Rasendracūḍāmaṇi 11.31); 5.231 = 14.198; 8.1 = 4.1; 8.100 = 4.116; 9.1 = 5.1; 9.63 = 5.61. See A. Bendixen (1990): 166.