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In Indian literature, references to China are not
direct, as are seen in the Chinese literature.
However,
we find that Chinese names are attached to many
processes or products, etc.; e.g., "脟in膩tantra" is a
section in the alchemical text "M膩rtrak膩bhedatantram"
or in a Tamil alchemical text "Bogar karpam", a name of
a silvery alloy is given as "China Silver". Later in this
chapter we will discuss this case.
References to Alchemy in Ganda
Vyuha S奴tra
"Ganda Vyuha Sutra" is a Mahayana text. It is
one of the nine original canonical texts and was written
at the beginning of the Christian era. It was translated
into Chinese for the first time by Zheng Kan of Honan
province (Ca 388-408).
Again in the seventh century
Divakara (Ca 613-687) translated it into Chinese.
Finally Prajn膩 in the early ninth century translated
this text into Chinese for the third time. All these
translations are included in the Chinese Buddhist
Tripitaka. Mahavyutpatti, the ninth-century Sanskrit-
Tibetan-Chinese dictionary gives synonymous Chinese-
Tibetan words for those appearing in "Ganda Vyuha Sutra".
This text was critically edited by Suzuki and Idzumi in
1959. Another edition was brought out by Vaidya in 1960.
One finds a number of references to alchemy in this