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Making Gems in Indian alchemical literature - Paul Ferguson - 08-19-2025

Dagmar Wujastyk, University of Alberta

"IN THIS ARTICLE, I will examine the practice of producing factitious gems as described in Nityanātha’s Jewel Mine of Mercury (Rasaratnākara, henceforth Jewel Mine), a thirteenth to fifteenth-century alchemical work written in Sanskrit."

https://www.wisdomlib.org/uploads/journals/hssa/12_8_134.pdf