Ancient Indian System of Rasayana Suvarnatantra a Treattise On Alchemy

This book has grown out of a UGC Major Project on Pharmacy in the Sanskrit Treatises on Rasayana in Eastern India awarded to the Editors in 2005. Rasayana, a sub-discipline of Ayurveda, gradually got transformed into Alchemy, the protoscience preceding Chemistry. In this monograph, an obscure text, the Suvarnatantra of the 16th century has been deciphered. The original Sanskrit text, its translation and interpretations by the research team have been incorporated. The introductory essay deals with the whole history of Rasayana in ancient India and the epilogue gives the colonial consequences of the mutation of Ayurveda. About The Author:- Chittabrata Palit M.A.(Cal.), Ph. D. (Cantab), FRAS (London), is a former Professor in History, Jadavpur University and is currently UGC Emeritus Fellow. An eminent historian, he specialises in Economic History of India and History of Sciences in India. His books in this field are: (edited), 'science, Technology, Medicine and Environment in India: Historical Perspectives, (1994); 'science and Nationalism' (2002) ed. 'History of Medicine in India' (2006) ; 'scientific Bengal' (2007). He was the Principal Investigator of the UGC Major Project, the primary report of which is incorporated in this volume. Nupur Dasgupta M.A., Ph.D. (J.U.) is a Reader in the Department of History, Jadavpur University. She was the co-investigator of the UGC Project. Her major publication is 'The Dawn of Technology in Indian Protohistory' (1997). She has been Charles Wallace Fellow at SOAS, London University, in 2001 and has also completed post-doctoral research sponsored by the Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi. Her main area of research is on the social history of science and technology in precolonial India. The Title 'Ancient Indian System of Rasayana Suvarnatantra a Treattise On Alchemy written/authored/edited by C. Palit Nupur Das Gupta', published in the year 2009. The ISBN 9788178356921 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 162 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History / Archaeology / HEALTH / HOME SCIENCE. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-