[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902) › v1.c10.t5 # 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 - **Language:** English ### Water ### [v1.c10.t5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.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. --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c10.t5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.ray-1902.v1.c10.t5) · Pramāṇa