]> 2026-06-21T12:47:19+07:00 Research:2024-01-01/Book chapter/cannabis-in-traditional-indian-alchemy 0 en-gb 10.11588/hasp.1386.c20158 2026-05-27Z 2461187.5 Patricia Sauthoff 2024-01-01Z 2460310.5 A philological and historical study of cannabis in the 12th–13th-century Sanskrit rasaśāstra text Ānandakanda, whose chapter 15 (186 verses) is the most extensive premodern Indian monograph on the plant. Updates Wujastyk (2002) with attention to the seven cannabis-mantras of the Ānandakanda, the fifteen Sanskrit synonyms (including the earliest secure attestation of ''gañjā''), the male–female plant distinction, alchemical recipes, signs of intoxication, and the rarity of cannabis as an ingredient elsewhere in the rasaśāstra corpus. Closes with the etymological history of "marijuana" and other modern-language terms. Cannabis in Traditional Indian Alchemy In Maas & Cerulli (eds.), Suhṛdayasaṃhitā: A Compendium of Studies on South Asian Culture, Philosophy and Religion. Dedicated to Dominik Wujastyk (Studia Indologica Universitatis Halensis 28). Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, pp. 165–179. 2026-05-27T15:15:03Z 2461188.1354514 Research:2024-01-01/Book chapter/cannabis-in-traditional-indian-alchemy