Amrtam

[Patricia Meredith Greer]

You would be very interested to see a new book by David G. White,
_Alchemical Body_, U Chicago.  He deals with the issue you mention, and
much more!
Patricia Greer
UVA
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Dr. S. Kalyanaraman
wrote:

> This subject of death in ancient India, brings to mind one nagging lexical issue:
> amrtam.
> 
> amrtam has alchemical overtones; it seems to refer
> to the imperishable nature of gold as the early seekers
> found means to smelt rocks, extract and purify the metal.
> And hence, extension of the concept of imperishability
> to the body...??
> 
> Regards, Kalyanaraman.
> 
> 
> At 12:53 AM 1/31/97 GMT, you wrote:
> >
> >In April 1994, Prof. Lance Nelson posted the following references to
> >INDOLOGY, re: death and dying in advaita vedanta. They should be useful. 
> >
> >R. Balasubramanian, "The Advaita View of Death and Immortality," in Death
> >and Immortality in the Religions of the World, ed. Paul and Linda Badham
> >(New York: Paragon House, 1987), 121ff.
> >
> >Debabrata Sinha, "On Immortality and Death--Notes in a Vedantic
> >Perspective" in Perspectives on Vedanta: Essays in Honor of Professor P.
> >T. Raju, ed. S. S. Rama Rao Pappu (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988), 170-181.
> >
> >S. Vidyasankar
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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