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The Rasashastra tradition

Rasa authors and compilers; authorship not individual

What they did

The Rasaratna Samuccaya and the Rasarnava classify minerals and metals, describe furnaces and apparatus for distillation and sublimation, and set out purification, calcination and the making of alloys as repeatable procedures.

The text

Rasaratna Samuccaya

When

Date disputed; the texts are compilations of a longer tradition · disputed · disputed
Attribution of the Rasaratna Samuccaya is debated; no single author is established

Where

Unknown or disputed.

Where it maps in modern education

Chemistry · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB · State — Rasashastra. Classification of minerals and metals, calcination, distillation and sublimation apparatus, purification, alloys, mercurial preparations.

Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.