ROLE OF JARANA PROCESS IN RAS SHASTRA

Neha Joshi; Pankaj Kumar Sharma; Snehdeep Soni; Avadhesh Kumar Bhatt; Babulal Saini

Volume : VIII, Issue : IV, April - 2019

ROLE OF JARANA PROCESS IN RAS SHASTRA

Neha Joshi, Pankaj Kumar Sharma, Snehdeep Soni, Avadhesh Kumar Bhatt, Babulal Saini

Abstract :

Rasa Shastra is known as iatrochemistry of Ayurveda. Rasa Shastra means science of Rasa dravya which includes mainly mercury. There are so many procedures like Sodhana, Jarana, Marana which play very important role in making of Rasa Dravya and Rasa Yoga.in this article my main focus is on role of Jarana process in Rasa Shastra. Jarana is one of the Samskara of Parada. Jarana is thirteenth of the eighteen Samskara of Parada. Ayurveda Samskara refers to the detoxification process of metals and Jāraṇa is a phase of an alchemical process, involving the total digestion or assimilation of a metal into the mercury (Rasa). Because it issues from a series of operations, Jarana may be viewed as the culmination of these alchemical Samskara as much as an operation in itself. From this point onwards, it becomes quite artificial to distinguish mercury from the metals to be transmuted. Once mercury has digested a given metal, that metal no longer exists and there is no weight increase in this process. Then it is alchemically activated mercury itself that will become transmuted into silver or gold.Mercury had to undergo 8 processes (example- jarana) before it could be used for transforming either metals or the human body. A combination of male and female principles (i.e. mercury and sulphur) forming cinnabar or mercuric sulphide or even of mercury and mica, was supposed to be highly potent and was therefore consumed as a Rasāyana or medicine for increasing body fluids or vitality. The earliest mention of Rasāyana was found in Ayurveda which was probably composed by 8th or 9th century BC, since it was a part of Atharva veda, the last of the four Vedas. Ayurveda (आयुर्वेद, Ayurveda) is a anch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, alchemy and related topics Jarana is a process in which mercury remains in its original form & appearance even after ingesting Rasa of Abhraka satva, Gandhaka, Svarna, etc. metals in different proportions. Even there is no change in the weight of the Parada. I