A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c63.873

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556 NCC III, 110; X, 18–19: erroneously attributed to Nāgārjuna. STMI 450: Rasakacapuṭa; a treatise in verse on the purification of mercury and the preparation of different kinds of mercurial powders by Nāgeśa or Nāgārjuna; the author speaks about Gannirāja of Bharadvājagotra and Vaikhānasasūtra. Check-list Nr. 358: Rasakakṣapuṭa is in some MSS an alternative title of the Kakṣapuṭa. Authors ascribing the Rasakakṣapuṭa to Nāgārjuna are: Bhagwan Dash (1976): 66; J. Filliozat, Liste Nr. 117; G.P. Srivastava (1954): 90; Sūramcandra (1978): 292. Nāgārjuna is one of the authorities quoted in the work.