The Wealth of Indian Alchemy and Its Medicinal Uses
author: B. Mukherji
edition: 1998, Sri Satguru Publications
pages: 741
ISBN-10: 8170305829
ISBN-13: 9788170305828
Topic: Rasashastra
Chapter 40 - Thinness
This page describes Thinness which is the fortieth chapter located on pages 629-630 in the book The wealth of Indian alchemy composed by B. Mukherji. This book is a compendium of medicinal practices related to Indian alchemy, a branch of Ayurveda known as Rasashastra. It deals with topics such as purification of metals, minerals and previous stones. This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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You can look up the meaning of the phrase “Thinness” according to 25 books dealing with Hinduism. The following list shows a short preview of potential definitions.
Rasa Jala Nidhi, vol 5: Treatment of various afflictions [by Bhudeb Mookerjee]
Thin men should be allowed to take all sorts of nutritive diet, and especially goats meat He should also sleep in day time as well as at night (This does not apply in the case of weakness and thinness (karshya), caused by consumption, in which sleeping in day time is to be scrupulously avoided). Dietary in thinness. It is quite the reverse of that in obesity....
Read full contents: Chapter 18 - Symptoms and Treatment of Karshya (thinness)
Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu [by Shrila Rupa Gosvami]
krishata, yatha — dadhati tava tathadya sevakanam bhuja-parighah krishatam ca pandutam ca | patati bata yatha mrinala-buddhya sphutam iha pandava-mitra pandu-pakshah ||3.2.119||English translationAn example of thinness in viyoga: “O friend of the Pandavas! The arms of all Your servants have become thin and pale in separation from You. The swans have come down, thinking that those arms are stems of the water lily.”...
Read full contents: Verse 3.2.119
Brahma Sutras (Shankaracharya) [by George Thibaut]
Their thinness renders them capable of passing out, and their transparency (permeability) is the cause of their not being stopped by any gross substance. For these reasons they, when passing out of the body, are not perceived by bystanders....
Read full contents: IV, 2, 9
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