Gold
object · 7 works · 7 mentions · 9 anchored passages
gold · gold pieces · golden ore · jātarūpa · kañcana
in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
Bullion described as being frequently transported out of the kingdom on account of the Priests, Jesuits, and the College of Capuchins.
(4) Because of the Priests, Jesuits, and the College, there are divers great quantities of gold transported frequently.
De Cultu Feminarum
Precious metal condemned as a symbol of transgression, idolatry, and earthly vanity, to be renounced by Christians
Love not gold, in which all the transgressions of the people of Israel are marked.
Bṛhaspati Smṛti
A pure substance placed in the court alongside fire and water, functioning as an instrument of ordeal and proof.
gold and fire are for ordeals;
gold, fire, water, and his own officer are the ten instruments of proof.
Gold, fire, and water are the eyes, the heart is the king's conscience, and his own officer is the feet.
Kātyāyana Smṛti
The monetary standard used to value disputed property and calibrate the severity/type of divine ordeal to be applied.
For a loss of sixty, the ordeal of water should be given;
For a loss of more than five, or half of that, the ordeal of rice grains.
Having ascertained the value of all property, one should calculate it in gold.
Manusmṛti
Stolen precious metal, subject of one of the four great sins and its expiation.
A gold thief obtains diseased nails;
hereafter I will declare the expiation for the theft of gold.
by death the thief is purified, but a Brāhmaṇa by *tapas* alone.
Slokantara
A precious metal used both as a literal object of wealth and as a recurring simile for unchanging essence and for methods of testing true nature.
Gold is the property of the rich;
For one who tests gold, this is the method.
[Slo_75s-a] > *Burned and burned again, gold has a radiant color;
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Gold and other minerals said to have originated from the fallen divine seed.
and its dross there became tin and lead.
That substance, reaching the earth, multiplied into various ores.
From that time onward, O Rāghava, O tiger among men, gold has been known as jātarūpa — blazing equal to Hutāśana.