rasa-shastra
रसशास्त्र rasaśāstraThe Indian alchemical science of mercury (rasa) and metals - the systematic tradition of purifying, 'killing' and fixing mercury, minerals and metals into medicines (bhasmas) and, in its highest aim, into agents of bodily immortality. It bridges Tantra, Ayurveda and metallurgy.
Where this term appears
- Tantric alchemy: rasa-shastra and the deathless body Lineages
It has a technical name, rasa-shastra , "the science of rasa ," and rasa means, at once, sap, essence, taste, the vital fluid of a body, and, above all in this literature, mercury.
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
…acopoeia pervasively only after roughly the eleventh century, through rasa-shastra , the alchemical tradition of the Nath and Siddha lineages, and they reach the mainstream canon with the Sharngadhara Samhita a…