Rasavidya, or chemistry including Alchemy, began to be cultivated by the ancient Aryas as early as the beginning of the present Kalpa, i.e. more than 1950000000years back. We have got fragments of two books, the authorship of which has all along been assigned to the great Rama Chandra (the hero of Ramanayanam, an epic composed by the sage Valmiki, who was a contemporary of the hero himself), who learnt the science of chemistry from Kalananth, a sage living ...
