BOOK SUMMARY OF ANCIENT INDIAN SYSTEM OF RASAYANA SUVARNATANTRA : A TREATISE ON
ALCHEMY/RASAYANA
This book has grown out of a UGC Major Project on Pharmacy in the Sanskrit
Treatises on Ayurveda in Eastern India warded to the Editors in 2005. In this
monograph, an obscure text, Suvarnatantra of c. 16th century (or later) has been
deciphered. The original Sanskrit text, its transcription, translation and three
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, professor