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It is indeed very creditable to you to have carried on your research in Indian Chemistry and to publish the results in such comprehensive form.
The publication is sure to attract the attention of all those who are interested in making available to the public the past achievements in the field of science in India.
It is an almost universal belief with the educated people of modern times that the world was created only a few thousand years ago and that the oldest civilization cannot date farther back than, say, twenty five thousand years before Christ. This assumption would seem to be most absurd to those who have entered into the spirit of the ancient Indian culture, unbiassed by any judgment passed by modern scholars on the antiquity of such a culture. The idea of the absolute creation of the Universe out of nothing, at a particular point of time, is more than an ordinary human being can conceive, in as much as it involves an attribution to God of such human characteristics as desire, want, and striving for the attainment of an wished for object, and thus reduces him to the level of an imperfect and human being.
Table of Contents:
Vol. 1
Introduction
Chapter 1
1. Requisites for metallurgical Operations
Chapter 2
2. Initiation of Disciple
Chapter 3
3. Mercury
4. Attributes of Mercury
Mercurial Operations-
(1) Purification of Mercury
(2) Boiling
(3) Rubbing
(4) Raising
(5) Sublimation
Upward sublimation of Mercury
Downward sublimation
(6) Confinement
(7) Restraint
(8) Stimulation
(9) Rehabilitation
Easy process of absolute purification of mercury
(10) Swallowing of metals by mercury
(11) Swooning of Mercury
(12) Movement
(13) Internal Liquefaction of mercury
(14) Exhaustion
(15) Killing
(16) Incineration
Chapter 4
(17) Dyeing of mercury
(18) Transformation of base metals into gold by mercury
Chapter 5
Apparata
Crucibles
Putams
Chapter 6
Definitions
Measures of weight
Different classes of solidification of mercury
Chapter 7
Additional processes for transformation of base metals into gold and silver
Appendix –Glossary
Vol. 2
Chapters
1. Uparasas
2. Gandhaka (Sulphur)
3. Kampilla
4. Metals
Glossary
Appendix
Vol. 3
Chapters
1. Lauha (iron)
2. Jasoda (Zinc)
3. Mixed metals –Pittala (brass) –its varieties
4. Ratnas (gems)
5. Ksharas (alkalis)
6. Lavanas (salts)
7. Poisons
8. Upabisha (semi-poison)
9. Extraction of oil from seeds of any kind
10. Alcoholic liquors (wine)
11. Paribhasa (Definations)
Vol. 4
Chapters
1. Prayer to God
2. Symptoms of fever
3. Jwara’tisa’ra (fever with diarrhoae)
4. Irregularity of the digesting heat
5. Piles
6. Diseases affecting the belly
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