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Mahdihassan, S. Indian alchemy or Rasayana in the light of asceticism and geriatrics. New Delhi Institute of History of Medicine and Medical Research, 1977. x, 139 p... 

Mahdihassan, S. Indian Rasayana and Chinese alchemy with allied origins. J Asiatic Soc Bombay 52-53 (1981) 184-186. 

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Includes Indian Alchemy Its Origin and Ramification/B.V. Subbarayappa. Other Contents History of Metallurgy in India / C.V. Sundram, Baldev Raj, and C. 

Treloar, F.E. Ritual objects illustrating Indian alchemy and Tantric religious practice. Isis 58, no. 3 (1967) 396-397. 

Mahdihassan, S. Alchemy and its fundamental terms in Greek, Arabic, Sanskit and Chinese. Indian J Hist Sci 16, no. 1 (1981) 64-76. 

Mahdihassan, S. The Sino-Indian origin of Chemeia and Chumeia as synonyms in Greek, signifying alchemy. Anc Sci Life 4, no. 2 (1984) 116-122. 

In the classical era in Europe, the theory and practice of chemistry were pursued mainly by the ancient Greeks, who made many important discoveries in metallurgy in particular and who are also credited with proposing the earliest version of the atomic theory. The Greek chemical tradition declined when mysticism displaced the observational approach in the second century of the Common Era, and subsequently was largely lost in Europe after the fall of Rome in 410 c.E. In the 11th. century c.E., the quasiscience of alchemy returned to Europe via the Arabs, who also introduced Persian, Indian, and Chinese influences. 

If the origins of Western alchemy are shrouded in mystery, the beginnings of Eastern alchemy are even more obscure. The art was known to have been practised in India, Tibet, China, Japan, Burma, Korea, Indonesia andVietnam. Eastern alchemy, while it has a laboratory tradition, is generally more concerned with the search for elixirs of immortality, longevity and vitality than attempts to transmute metals, and incorporates disciplines such as yoga, and diet and breath control. The two most important schools in the East are the Chinese and Indian traditions. 

If Chinese alchemy is unthinkable without Taoism, so Indian alchemy is unthinkable without Hinduism and, like its Chinese counterpart, it is concerned with the production of elixirs to prolong life. The idea of twin polarities governing things is borrowed from Hinduism Shakti, the feminine principle, is the active Mother/Destroyer, the endless change of the world, whereas Shiva is the constant, passive, male energy. Its origins are contemporaneous with Chinese alchemy, and the two traditions seem to have periodically borrowed from one another. 

Indian alchemy also has a number of parallels with yoga and... 

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