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122 See on gairika: R.L. Khosa and R.H. Singh (1972). 123 See on pravālabhasman (= vidrumabhasman): R.K. Asundi and R.M. Dixit (1978); V. Nageswar Rao and S.K. Dixit (1998); V. Narayanaswami, V.N. Sundararajan and S. Saradambal (1967). 124 See on the purification of viṣas and upaviṣas: D. Joshi and V. Nagaraju (1988). 125 See Somadevaśarman's commentaries on the Āyurvedaprakāśa on the way Sadānanda made use of earlier works in composing his own verses. 126 The third method of preparing rasapuṣpa (6.32–38) derives from Narendranātha. 127 Agasta is a Rasasiddha in the Rasendrasambhava. 128 Gorakha is also a Rasasiddha in the Rasendrasambhava. 129 Śaṃkara is also a Rasasiddha in the Rasendrasambhava. 130 Viṣṇu is also a Rasasiddha in the Rasendrasambhava. 131 See on suvarṇamākṣika: D. Joshi (1991a): 72. 132 See on rajata- or tāramākṣika: D. Joshi (1991a): 73. 133 The two varieties of gairika may be the earthy and hard varieties of haematite, the red oxide of iron (Fe2O3) (see D. Joshi, 1991a: 116). 134 Formulae not incorporated in the Rasayogasāgara are, for example, 23.60–62, 82–86, 171–175, 176–181. 135 Compare Rasendrapurāṇa 7.88–92. 136 Called sujāk in the Hindī commentary. 137 Haridattaśāstrin was a pupil of Śivadattamiśra and a resident of Jāḍalanagara in the Jālandharamaṇḍala (see the colophon of his commentary). 138 Probably Mādhava Upādhyāya's Āyurvedaprakāśa. 139 See the Sanskrit commentary ad 1.5–8 and Sadānanda's bhūmikā to the edition. 140 AVI 464. 141 See Rasataraṅgiṇī 24.581–582 and the Sanskrit commentary. 142 Edition: rasāyanasāra, varṣaṣaṭkapariśrameṇa daśasahasramudrāvyayena ca jātānubhavaphalārūpaḥ athaḥ varṣ ke pariśram aur das hajār rūpya kharc se prāpt hue anubhava kā phal, granthakartā rasāyanāśāstrī paṇḍit śyāmasundarācārya vaiśya, Śyāmasundar Āyurved Granthamālā kā pratham puṣpa, Vārāṇasī 1936; this edition is accompanied by a Hindī commentary; the commentary is useful and, at places, more elaborate than the Sanskrit text; the Rasāyanasāra is followed by two pariśiṣṭas; the first one contains Śyāmasundara's answers to twelve questions pertaining to rasaśāstra which were published in the Gujarātī journal Vaidyakalpataru (the issue of August 1911), his answers to eleven questions of Vaidya Dāmodar Govind of Nāgpur, and his replies to questions asked by Mayārām Sundar of Jemtpur, Vidyādhar Śarmā of Kāṅgṛā and Tryambak Gurunāth Kāle of Bombay (published in the issues of the Gujarātī journal Vaidyakalpataru and the Marāṭhī journal Vaidyakapattrikā); the second pariśiṣṭa contains maṅgala verses by Śyāmasundara, accompanied by long explanations in Hindī; the edition ends with a praśamsā of Śyāmasundara (in Sanskrit) and an essay (in Hindī) by Kedārnāthśarmā on the author and his Rasāyanasāra. 143 This group consists of śuṇṭhī, guḍūcī, khalanī (= śvetamusalī), varī (= śatāvarī), and palaṅkaṣā (= gokṣura). 144 Destruction of the lustrous quality of mica. 145 Several statements in the Sanskrit text and Hindī commentary confirm that he composed the verses himself (see, for example, the commentary ad 4.13–18).