Snayu Sharira: Bhavaprakasha Counts Nine Hundred Bindings and Draws the Body as a Lattice Window

The short version After it finishes counting the joints, the Bhavaprakasha turns to what holds them shut. It says there...

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Sandhi Sharira in the Bhavaprakasha: 210 Joints, Eight Shapes, and the Sentence Where the Counting Stops

The short version In its anatomical pages, the Bhavaprakasha, Purva Khanda states that the body has two hundred and ten...

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Marma Sharira in the Bhavaprakasha: The 107 Vital Points, and Why the Largest Class Is the One You Survive

The short version A marma is a place on the body where flesh, vessel, ligament, bone and joint meet —...

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Jatharagni and Agnimandya in the Bhavaprakasha: How Food Becomes Body - Amashaya, Kledaka Kapha, Pachaka Pitta and the Grahani (Purva Khanda)

The short version Somewhere around the sixteenth century, Bhavamisra sat down to explain what happens to food after you swallow...

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Mamsa Peshi, Meda and Asthi in the Bhavaprakasha: The Five Hundred Muscles, the Fat That Gathers at the Belly and the Bones That Outlast the Body (Dhatu Prakarana)

Quick Summary After naming the five vatas, five pittas and five kaphas, the Bhavaprakasha’s Purva Khanda walks deeper into the...

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Kledana, Avalambana, Rasana, Snehana, Shleshmana: The Five Kaphas of the Bhavaprakasha — One Moon-Cool Dosha in Five Stations, and the Stomach Kapha That Waters Them All

Quick Summary With this reading, the Bhavaprakasha’s tour of the three doshas completes its circle. After the five winds and...

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