What is Bhavaprakashah ?

After Ayurveda was developed by Theo (Dev in Hindi language) Scholars of Vedic fame in the process of developing the subcontinent India and its inhabitants about 3,000 years back from now, people of many other races - like Yahoodis (Yadus in Hindi), Assyrians (Asur in Hindi),  arrived on the land with illicit intentions of eliminating Theos and establishing their rule over the people of the land. In their most disastrous political move, they first propounded a religion named Sanatan Dharm, which was later renamed as Hinduism, with a trickester Krishna as their deity said to be an incarnation of their fictitious God, but without any foundational literature of the said religion. To fill this gap, they published misinterpretations of Vedic literature through changes in word-meanings. So, theft has been the first quality of Hinduism. For people not to find the original scientific ideals of Theos, Hindu leaders began killing Theos and destroying their original works. The crisis forced the people of Theo race to create their literature with secrecy, called Shaastras, which could be understood by highly devoted scholars only, assuming that Hindus would never be that serious to understand their writings. 

Ayurveda has been the most important science of health of Theos, that promises elongation of human lifespan upto 1,000 years. Their fear was that if a person of demonic nature finds ways of living for 1,000 years, hewould create huge problems to the whole human race. So they created a document on Ayurveda with secret meanings of the text. This is why the scripture Bhavaprakashah was created by two great scholarly brothers named Bharadwaj. 

Subjects of Bhavaprakashah

To make serious students of Ayurveda to understand the meanings of the textual matter, five more scholars - Pulastya couple, Agasti and Asit couple introduced the codes of secrecy into the same text. The text was further enriched by 9 more scholars - Angira couple, Garg couple, Mareechi, Bhrugu with his 3 sons called Bhargavas, embedded in the same text scientific information on the Sun, the Polestar, the Earth, the Moon, and a detailed study of Camphor, along with destructive deeds of Siddhartha Buddha. 

Thus the scripture was created by 16 Vedic Scholars and deals with 6 subjects apart from the great science of Ayurveda. 

Types of Texts

Bhavaprakash uses 3 types of textual matters - Headings orSubheadings, Poetic verses ending with a verse serial number beginning with serial number 1 for each chapter, and thirdly, explanations and word-meanings for the verses. 

Our Additions in the Publication by Vedic Wisdom 

Bhavaprakashah originally has 3 sections marked - 1, 2 and 3, each containing single or multiple Subject-groups or Chapters. The first section contains 5 chapters of general nature, 23 chapter-groups on Basic Medicinal Materials, and 20 chapters on Practices of Ayurveda. For convenience of readers, we at Vedic Wisdom have marked contents of the first sections as Ayurveda Basics (AB), Materia Medica (MM) and Ayurveda Practices (AP), respectively. Thus, AB contains5 chapters marked by us as A to E, MM has 23 Groups marked by us from 1to 23, and AP has 20 chapters marked by us from F to Y. 

Second section of Bhavaprakashah deals with Diseases and Medicinal Formulations (DF) containing 73 chapters, marked by us from 24 to 96. The third section of Bhavaprakashah has only 2 chapters, marked by us as Super Health (SH) - 97 and 98.  

Tools of Secrecy

To have multiple subject matters reunning in parallel in the same text, Bhavaprakash uses various marks on the words -

Anuswar Mark

The first and the most important mark of primary word is a Dot on the top-right End of the word, called Anuswar mark. Such words are some single words, and others joint words made-up of various words. Single words have their specific meanings specified in the original Author's comments in the text. Words having multiple meanings are listed in chapter 23 of Bhavaprakashah, which wehave organized in an alphabetic order in our Publication.

Joint words with Anuswar marks have one direct meaning, and one or more of derived words, each with an Anuswar mark present in the scripture itself anywhere.. These derivations are required to be done from joint words based upon characters used in the word, Half characters, characters with vowel-mark attachments, repeated characters are used in the derivations, while singly present plain characters with no vowel-marks and those with a top Devanagari script 'r' mark are ignored in the derivations. 

Group of words ending with a Anuswar-marked word in a verse line are also derived to form a single word that is present somewhere in the scripture. 

Visarga Mark 

Two dots one over the other, like the Colon mark of Roman Script (:), used at a word-end is called Visarga mark in Devanagari script. This mark indicates that the word has two more Anuswar-marked derived words for giving out multiple meanings to the word. These derived words begin with the first character of the Visarga-marked word, have similar vowel-marks on its characters, end with an Anuswar mark, andis present in thesamesection ofvthe scripture.

All of theabove-said derivations need a collection of all the Anuswar-marked words present in each section of the scripture. Thus, the 3 sections of the scripture stand independent ofeach other. Our publication provides the full lists of such words section-wise.