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, fire, water, and his own officer are the ten instruments of proof.
Gold, fire, water, and the treatises on *dharma*— the king should place these pure and beneficial things in the middle of the court.
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.
Having ascertained the value of all property, one should calculate it in gold.
Having known the number of gold pieces, for a loss of one hundred, the ordeal of poison is prescribed.
For a loss of more than five, or half of that, the ordeal of rice grains.
Manusmṛti
Stolen precious metal, subject of one of the four great sins and its expiation.
But a twice-born who wishes to remove by *tapas* the impurity caused by the theft of gold should, wearing a wretched garment, perform the vow of a slayer of a Brāhmaṇa in the forest.
A Brāhmaṇa who has committed the theft of gold should go to the king and, proclaiming his own deed, say, "Let your majesty punish me.
hereafter I will declare the expiation for the theft of gold.
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.
[Slo_80s-a] > *As gold is tested by four means—* [Slo_80s-b] > *By rubbing, striking, cutting, and heating—* [Slo_80s-c] > *So a person is tested by four means—* [Slo_80s-d] > *By their learning, their character, their qualities, and their deeds.
As for gold, it is melted again and again, and in the end its color is brilliant.
[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.
From that time onward, O Rāghava, O tiger among men, gold has been known as jātarūpa — blazing equal to Hutāśana.
That which issued forth from her — gleaming like heated Jāmbūnada gold — when it reached the earth became pure, auspicious golden ore.
The moment the embryo was deposited, the entire forest clinging to the mountains, suffused with those energies, became golden.