A study of similarities and differences between medicine and alchemy in ancient India, investigated in the epics, court literature, satire and the first Indian historical text, with a comparison with Chinese ideas and practices. Both cultures believed in the ingestion of mercurial elixirs for health and longevity, and had special techniques of breath control, meditation and physical exercise.
Traces of ancient Indian alchemy in some kavya and katha texts with a note on Chinese alchemy / Fabrizia Baldissera. - In: AION ANNALI DELL'ISTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO ORIENTALE DI NAPOLI. DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI DEL MONDO CLASSICO E DEL MEDITERRANEO ANTICO. SEZIONE FILOLOGICO-LETTERARIA. - ISSN 1128-7209. - STAMPA. - XXXVII:(2016), pp. 13-34.
Traces of ancient Indian alchemy in some kavya and katha texts with a note on Chinese alchemy
BALDISSERA, FABRIZIA
2016
Abstract
A study of similarities and differences between medicine and alchemy in ancient India, investigated in the epics, court literature, satire and the first Indian historical text, with a comparison with Chinese ideas and practices. Both cultures believed in the ingestion of mercurial elixirs for health and longevity, and had special techniques of breath control, meditation and physical exercise.
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