The Rasahṛdaya Tantra
- Date of account
- Probably medieval, often placed around the 13th century
- Location
- South Asia; Sanskrit tradition
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
The Rasahṛdaya Tantra is a Sanskrit work associated with the mature rasashastra tradition, especially procedures involving mercury, sulfur, metals, purification, fixation, and medicinal or transformative aims. It provides a useful comparison point for how technical instructions and tantric or initiatory frameworks coexist in South Asian alchemical literature. Its date, authorship, textual relationships, and practical reproducibility require checking against manuscript studies and editions. Reports of perfected bodies or extraordinary longevity should be treated as claims within the text, not empirical evidence.
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