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INTRODUCTION
A critical description of Nadiprakasam of Sri Sankara Sen, given by the editor, indicating its relation with other sources :
Nadiprakasam of Sri Sankara Sen was found by the editor, and pieced together with Nadivijnanam of Maharsi Kanada in the library of his elder brother, a celebrated Ayurvedic physician in Bengal, after his death in 1962, as pointed out in the introduction to Nadivijnanam.
Nadiprakasam also is a short treatise composed by the author in Sanskrit in the form of aphorism, on the basis of Nadivijnanam, on the science of pulse with some commentaries in Sanskrit and additional materials. This work was published by Sri Upendranath Sen Kaviraj, 29 Kolutola Street, Calucutta, along with Nadivijnanam with its Bengali tranaslation in Bengali script in the beginning of this twentieth century.
The colophons of Nadiprakasam clearly points out that it was composed by Sri Sankara Sen “ Sankarasenanama tenaiva tene Dhamaniprakasah".
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