TY  - GEN
AU  - Biswas, Arun Kumar
AU  - Biswas, Sulekha
TI  - Minerals and Metals in Ancient India Vol.2
SN  - 8124600481
U1  - 669.0954 BIS 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
KW  - Mines and mineral resources--India--History
KW  - Metallurgy-India-History
KW  - Minerals-India-History
KW  - Metallurgy
N2  -  Volume 2 approaches the theme from the viewpoint of indigenous literary sources chronologically marshalling over three thousand years of Sanskrit writings: ranging from Rigveda to Rasaratnasamuccaya. Reviewing, among other things, the entire gamut of studies in gemmology (ratnashastra) and alchemy (rasashastra), the authors here set out a meticulous analysis of Rasaratnasamuccaya: a fourteenth century text, high-lighting the climactic heights of iatrochemistry in ancient India. With detailed explanations of Sanskrit technical expressions, the volume also tries to correlate, wherever possible, literary evidence with archaeological data. Sponsored by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi, Minerals and Metals in Ancient India has involved years of the authors painstaking research. Together with maps, figures, tables, appendices and illustrative photographs, it will evoke enormous interest in geologists, metallurgists,archaeo-metallurgists, mineralogists, gemmologists, historians of science, archaeologists, Indologists, and the scholars of Indian pre- and ancient history
ER  -