A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c10.t5: Water
A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c10.t5
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Water
v1.c10.t5.1
“2. Water, which has the qualities of earth; excepting smell, and with the addition of viscidity. Odour, when observable in water is adscititious, arising from mixture of earthy particles.
v1.c10.t5.2
“The distinguishing quality of water is coolness. It is accordingly defined as a substance cool to the feel.
v1.c10.t5.3
“It it eternal, as atoms; transient, as aggregates. The qualities of the first are constant likewise; those of the latter inconstant.
v1.c10.t5.4
“Organic aqueous bodies are beings abiding in the realm of Varuna. The organ of taste is aqueous: witness the saliva. Unorganic waters are rivers, seas, rain, snow, hail, etc.
v1.c10.t5.5
“It is by some maintained that hail is pure water rendered solid by the supervention of an unseen virtue: others imagine its solidity to be owing to mixture of earthly particles.