The Ocean of Mercury

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Such features are filled everywhere in this text. Therefore, this text is considered the best for the attainment of mercury in Rasashastra.

The Rasa-scientific world is first and foremost indebted to Sir P. C. Ray, Calcutta, due to whose tireless efforts and research-based revisions this text was presented before scholars and Rasa-scientists. Through Sir P. C. Ray's research-based English commentary, some essence of many parts of this text was revealed. However, later, when the Calcutta-printed copy became unavailable, it was published with Sanskrit commentary by Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series, Varanasi, in 1939; even then, the complexity of this text could not be resolved. These days, even the old copy has become difficult to find.

This text is considered very difficult from the perspective of linguistic meaning and subject matter. Because only the original text was available, no one dared to read it or buy it. This was the reason that the first edition of the original text was exhausted in 35 years.

First of all, the budding Hindi commentator of this text, Dr. Indradeo Tripathi...

The remaining text describes the elaborate and highly ritualized process of the final alchemical rite (the self-immolation/transformation of the seeker in the copper basin), emphasizing the necessity of guru-guidance and the attainment of a divine state.