Gyan Bhandaar

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Every finding and preservation effort published on Gyan Bhandaar.

Folio with decoctions for sannipāta, tertian, and fever-with-cough.
AyurvedaAugust 16, 2026

Vaidyavallabha: A Fever Formulary by a Poet-Physician

Vaidyavallabha: fever formulas, universal remedies, and a physician-poet's lineage preserved in 1850.

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Folio on the six seasons and their relationship to the three doshas.
AyurvedaAugust 14, 2026

Eat by the Season: Vaidyasarvasva's Six-Season Regimen

Kāśīrāma's Vaidyasarvasva maps every season to a doṣa — vāta in the rains, pitta in autumn, kapha in spring — with food, drink, and water rules for each.

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Folio enumerating the snāyu, tendons and ligaments, of the body.
AyurvedaAugust 12, 2026

Vaidyasarvasva: Counting the Body's 900 Tendons and 210 Joints

Kāśīrāma's Vaidyasarvasva numbers the body — 900 snāyu, 210 sandhi, 700 srotas — and catalogs honey's four varieties and twenty drug qualities.

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Folio describing arogyambu, health-giving water prepared by reduction.
AyurvedaAugust 10, 2026

Vaidyarahasya: The 'Health-Giving Water' Remedy

Vaidyarahasya: water therapy, fever fasting, and a 17th-century compendium that absorbed syphilis into Ayurvedic medicine.

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Folio listing the spiritual rewards of planting tulasi, bilva and ashvattha.
AyurvedaAugust 08, 2026

Upavanavinoda: A Medieval Guide to Trees and Gardens

Planting for merit and prosperity: trees as dharma, site selection, water-finding, and applying Ayurvedic healing to gardens from a medieval Sanskrit treatise.

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Folio on vāta, pitta, and kapha imbalances in diseased trees.
AyurvedaAugust 06, 2026

Healing Trees with Doṣa Logic: Vṛkṣāyurveda in Action

Upavanavinoda treats trees like patients — vāta, pitta, and kapha afflict them too — with cow's-urine pastes, frog-water for barren trees, and ghee for wounds.

From: UpavanavinodaRead moreeast
Opening folio on the calamities of the sixtieth year.
DharmashastraAugust 04, 2026

Ugrarathaśānti: Taming the Fierce Sixtieth Year

Ugrarathaśānti pacifies the dangers of the sixtieth year through ritual centered on Mārkaṇḍeya, the sage who conquered death.

From: UgrarathaśāntividhiRead moreeast
Folio naming breath-knowledge the jewel in the crown of knowledges.
DharmashastraAugust 02, 2026

Svarodaya: Reading Fate in the Breath

Svarodaya teaches breath as destiny — the science of nāḍīs, tattvas, and auspicious moments, transcending the planets through knowledge of the body's inner clock.

From: ManusmṛtiRead moreeast
Opening of the Bālavivekinī commentary on Kālidāsa's Śrutabodha.
KavyaJuly 31, 2026

Śrutabodha: Kālidāsa's Prosody, Explained for Beginners

The Śrutabodha is a short Sanskrit treatise on prosody attributed to Kālidāsa — its name means 'understanding by hearing,' because the characteristics of met...

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Opening of the second Rādhāsudhānidhi copy
KavyaJuly 31, 2026

A Second Rādhāsudhānidhi: The Treasure of Rasa

This devotional text celebrates Rādhā as the essence of divine love and rasa, with elaborate prayers for her grace and service in the groves of Vṛndāvana.

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Folio on kevala-jñāna, the pure knowledge that liberates.
DarshanaJuly 29, 2026

Sāṃkhya: When Prakṛti Dances No More

Prakṛti the dancer performs until Puruṣa truly sees her, then stops — the Sāṃkhya path to liberation through knowledge of the twenty-five principles.

From: SāṁkhyaRead moreeast
Page of the Līlāvatī listing the names of number-places
GanitaJuly 29, 2026

One to a Parārdha: The Names of Numbers in Līlāvatī

The Līlāvatī opens with poetic names for the powers of ten, then teaches arithmetic through multiple methods and practical problems.

From: Līlāvatī3Read moreeast
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