Nagarjuna was a tenth century scientist. The main aim of his experiments was to transform base elements into gold, like the alchemists in the western world. Till date, this technology is used in making imitation jewelry. In his treatise, Rasaratnakara, he has discussed methods for the extraction of metals like gold, silver, tin and copper.
Why Nagarjuna is known as The 'Einstein of India' ?
Nagarjuna is named "Einstein of India" because, similar to Einstein's theory of relativity, he promoted the theory of Sunyavada. He taught the theory of relativity and claimed that only because of a long dimension relative to it, shortness is possible.
He explained that shortness is only possible because of long length relative to it. He was an Ayurvedic physician (Ayurveda is a traditional Indian medicine system). Nagarjuna had been credited with explaining the circulatory system and blood tissue.
Ancient and Medieval India was the home to great and the greatest geniuses of all time especially in the field of Mathematics and Astronomy and medical science but today I am going to tell you about a Chemistry wizard who discovered the process of making Gold.
Before I start I want to ask a Question to you that how much gold is present in present India?
Today, about 25.000 tonne gold is present in Indian people homes. BUT wait a minute
What about the gold which is hidden?
You can imagine how prosperous India was by admitting the fact that when Invaders came repeatedly. They just came for looting the gold only and gold was scattered during their returning path to their homes.
But I want ask you that from where this much gold came in India. Neither we had that much of goldmines nor modern knowledge at that medieval time. So, there can be two reasons of this that you may be thinking
1) Gold might be imported.
2) There must be more mining in in that time period.
But Ask yourself how much these reasons satisfy you.
Don't be Confused. I will tell you the third and appropriate reason.
Our Ancient Indian Chemistry was that much developed that Chemists of that time, often under a king's order, prepared gold from any metal and the persons who did that kind of work. We know them by the name ALCHEMIST nowadays
Today I will tell you at what level our post vedic Chemistry stood and advanced to which extent.
So let's get started.
first we know why the civilizations need the study of chemistry
1) To identify and create the medicine you need to know well about the chemicals and as you know Our Indian (Bharatvarsh) was how much advanced in the field of Medical Science which gave the world the miraculous Aayurveda.
2) Metallurgy: Extracting different metals from the earth and using them in day-to-day life.
3) The greed of the people
Around 100 A.D. There lived a genius named Nagarjuna siddha - Father of Alchemy in India - he was capable of converting any metal into Gold and he successfully discovered this technique used this also.
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Alchemy has two charactersitics:
1) Converting any metal to Gold
2) Inventing a liquid which was capable of increasing the age of a person.
Indian Alchemists were active in mainly these two fields . Nagarjuna gave his famous less but useful more textual Masterpieces like Rasendra Manglam Of Nagarjuna which has a significant contribution in our science and Chemistry.
Nagarjuna also written books like Aarogya Manjari and Yogsar and a sginificant contribution in the field of Medical science and health.
But In ancient times Chemistry was not practised as Chemistry, it became a part of Magical powers practised in medieval times and even today and then It was called Tantra Viddhya and from here the downfall of Chemistry began in our country and this was the reason that modern chemistry did not derived from our India's Chemistry because Tantra Vidhhya is associated with wrong motives that led to no more studies of Chemistry in the minds of poeple therefore we were not able to share it with West and credited wholly themselves for chemistry. However India developed Chemistry very early but still we must be proud that Mathematics and Astronomy we can say derived from India or has a unprecedent contribution in Modern day Mathematics and Astronomy.
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