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Govind Bhikṣu / Asiatic Society Mumbai
This text has not previously been translated into English.
The Rasahṛdayatantra is a manual for the impossible, documenting the quest to bind mercury and transmute base metals into gold. It reveals the rigorous laboratory discipline and esoteric metaphors that defined Indian alchemy in 1728.