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'''Nāgārjuna''' ({{lang|hi|नागार्जुन}}) was an [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent|Indian metallurgist]] and [[Alchemy|alchemist]]. Legends recorded by [[Al-Biruni]] in the eleventh century say that he was born in the village of Daihak near in [[Gujarat]] "one hundred years ago," i.e., at the start of the tenth century.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sachau|first1=Eduard|title=Alberuni's India|url=https://archive.org/stream/AlberunisIndia/Alberuni%27s-India#page/n241/mode/2up|website=archive.org|publisher=Trubner|location=volume 1|page=189|date=1910}}</ref> Chinese and Tibetan literature says he born in Vaideha desh ([[Vidarbha]]) and then migrated to nearby [[Satavahana dynasty]]. There much confusion in history between Mahayana sect founder Nagarjuna and alchemist Nagarjuna. There are evidences found of his experimental laboratory in village [[Nagalwadi]] in [[Maharashtra]] state. According to some evidences he was working on immortality and knew the extraction of iron and mercury. There is much confusion about this author in the secondary literature. A 1984 study of manuscripts and printed editions connected with the alchemist Nāgārjuna found that his name is associated with a work titled ''Rasendramaṅgala''<ref name=":4" /> but that the manuscripts of the ''Rasaratnākara'' are uniformly ascribed to a different author, Nityanātha Siddha.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Wujastyk|first1=Dominik|title=An Alchemical Ghost: The Rasaratnâkara by Nâgârjuna|website=Ambix|pages=70–83|doi=10.1179/amb.1984.31.2.70|date=18 July 2013}}</ref>

Works ascribed in manuscripts to an author called Nāgārjuna include Jīvasūtra,<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-indian-medical-literature/oclc/42207455&referer=brief_results|title=A history of Indian medical literature|last=Meulenbeld|first=Gerrit Jan|date=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=9069801248|volume=IIA|location=Groningen|page=135|language=English}}</ref> Rasavaiśeṣikasūtra,<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-indian-medical-literature/oclc/42207455&referer=brief_results|title=A history of Indian medical literature|last=Meulenbeld|first=Gerrit Jan|date=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=9069801248|volume=IIA|location=Groningen|page=136|language=English}}</ref> Yogaśataka,<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-indian-medical-literature/oclc/42207455&referer=brief_results|title=A history of Indian medical literature|last=Meulenbeld|first=Gerrit Jan|date=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=9069801248|volume=IIA|location=Groningen|page=1395|language=English}}</ref> Kakṣapuṭa,<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-indian-medical-literature/oclc/42207455&referer=brief_results|title=A history of Indian medical literature|last=Meulenbeld|first=Gerrit Jan|date=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=9069801248|volume=IIA|location=Groningen|page=192|language=English}}</ref> Yogaratnamālā<ref name=":4">{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-indian-medical-literature/oclc/42207455&referer=brief_results|title=A history of Indian medical literature|last=Meulenbeld|first=Gerrit Jan|date=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=9069801248|volume=IIA|location=Groningen|page=193|language=English}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-indian-medical-literature/oclc/42207455&referer=brief_results|title=A history of Indian medical literature|last=Meulenbeld|first=Gerrit Jan|date=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=9069801248|volume=IIA|location=Groningen|page=714|language=English}}</ref> and several other works (Meulenbeld lists over fifty). It is certain that several different authors used the name Nāgārjuna to write works on medicine and alchemy, and that these authors are to be distinguished from the second-century Buddhist philosopher [[Nagarjuna|of the same name]].

The most recent comprehensive discussion of the complicated text-historical issues connected with the name Nāgārjuna is given in the ''History of Indian Medical Literature''.<ref name=":5">{{Cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/history-of-indian-medical-literature/oclc/42207455&referer=brief_results|title=A history of Indian medical literature|last=Meulenbeld|first=Gerrit Jan|date=1999|publisher=E. Forsten|isbn=9069801248|volume=IA|location=Groningen|pages=363–368|language=English}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Rasavātam]]
* [[History of metallurgy in the Indian subcontinent]]

==References==
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