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title: Bhāvaprakāśa
description: 'The 16th-century compendium of Bhāvamiśra, bridge of the classical system toward early modern practice, with its celebrated glossary (nighaṇṭu) and restatements of constitution and regimen.'
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- reference
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- nighantu
timestamp: '2026-07-09'
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license: CC BY-SA 4.0
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# Bhāvaprakāśa

The Bhāvaprakāśa of Bhāvamiśra (16th century CE) is the last of the so-called lesser triad of great compendia, valued for its systematic restatement of the classical doctrine and its nighaṇṭu, the drug-and-substance glossary that became a standard of early modern pharmacy. The bundle lists it as the maturity layer of the tradition: evidence of how the doṣa, guṇa, and rasāyana vocabulary continued as a living technical language into the early modern period.
