Hindu Chemistry

Malayalam version of ‘A History of Hindu Chemistry: from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D.’ authored by Prof. P C Ray (Prafulla Chandra Ray), who was Professor of Chemistry at Presidency College, Kolkata, and published in the first decade of the twentieth century. The book has a long introduction divided into six chapters which respectively deal with the alchemical ideas in the Vedas, the Ayurvedic period, the transitional period, the tantric period, the latrochemical period and the indebtedness of the Arabians to India. The Hindu chemistry of these periods are further elaborated with extracts and translation of Sanskrit texts dealing with chemistry. Translation is by Dr. E B Sureshkumar.

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