

175 when a royaldecree was enacted banning alchemical preparation of preciousmetals by the Celestial Empire these details are recounted in the twoexisting Chinese books of alchemy Shih Chi and Treatise ofElixir Refined in Nine Couldrons, both dated to the first century B.C. 135 and was practiced as an art until B.C.

Also alchemy as a science was practised in China onlyafter B.C. This very same concept wasfirst revealed by the adi-siddhar Agasthya Rishi, whose period isas old as the Vedas, which have been conservatively dated at3500 B.C. Lao Tse - the founder of Taoism (5th century B.C.) was the firstChinese to propound the theory of duality of matter - the male Yang andfemale Yin - which conforms to the Siddha concept of Shiva -Shakti or positive-negative forces. The details of these and other experi-ments demonstrated by Bhogar in China are clearly documented in the Saptakanda.īogar's guru, Kālāngi Nāthar, is believed to be a Chinese whoattained siddhi in South India and thus became included among the Eighteen Siddhars. It is said that as per the last wishes of his guru, Bhogarproceeded to China to spread the knowledge of siddha sciencesand strangely enough his journey is said to have been made with theaid of an aircraft he demonstrated to the Chinese the details of theconstruction of the aircraft and later built for them a sea-goingcraft using a steam engine.

Also Pulippani must have been a young man then, as he is often referred to as a balaka. In Bhogar's Saptakanda he reveals details ofvarious medicinal preparations to his disciple Pullippani (so named ashe is believed to have wandered in the forests atop a puli or tiger)and at every stage he quotes his guru as the authority. Click on any picture to visit: The Life of Bhogar in Pictures.ī hogar was a South Indian by birth, belonging to the caste of goldsmiths, who became a siddha purusha under the guidance of Kalangināthar.
