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principle that to what extent does it contribute to the progress of mankind by enabling him to live with more happiness, more intensity, more profoundness, more wisdom, and more freedom in the mundane world.
Next comes the question of technique used in the work for proper criticism which distinguishes its subject-matter, guiding one to a finer appreciation of composition and making him realize more clearly and completely what the author has meant there. Literature carries the message of knowledge and cultural heritage of a people or a country from the distant past upto the present and preserves the literature of to-day for the future generation through the successive stages of the social evolution. From this angle of vision on the literature Nadivijnanam testifies sufficiently to the linguistic and literary development of its age and value to mankind by conveying the knowledge of the science of pulse to some extent.
It deals with the examination of six pulses for the diagnosis of diseases, the movement of three pulse—vata, pitta, and kaph, different kinds of movement of the pulses indicating various kinds of disease, incurable cases of patients indicated by different movements of the pulses relating to vata, pitta, and kaph in successive orders and Tridosanadi (pulse having three faults or typhoid) indicating vata, pitta, and kaph, the cases of death indicated by
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