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Indian Alchemy - Sources and Contexts

English · Hardback

Will be released 17.10.2025

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Drawing on a selection of the most important Sanskrit alchemical works from the ninth to sixteenth centuries, Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts provides an introduction to South Asian alchemy, tracing and explaining alchemical thought as it developed on the Indian subcontinent. Carefully edited by Dagmar Wujastyk, the collected essays offer deep insight into the motivations and goals of Indian alchemists and illuminate the theories and methods they developed over time.

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Dagmar Wujastyk is Associate Professor of South Asian Studies in the Department of History, Classics, and Religion at the University of Alberta, Canada. Her research focuses on the history and literature of classical Indian medicine (Ayurveda), Indian iatrochemistry and alchemy, and yoga.

Product details

Assisted by Dagmar Wujastyk (Editor), Wujastyk Dagmar (Editor)
Publisher Oxford Academic
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Release 17.10.2025
 
EAN 9780197805800
ISBN 978-0-19-780580-0
Illustrations 10 maps, 5 illustrations
Series South Asia Research
Subjects Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works

RELIGION / Religion & Science, biochemistry, History of Medicine, Alternative belief systems, Asian History, Religion and science, Religion & science, HISTORY / Asia / South / India

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