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11 the physician washes his hand (with water), after examining the pulse of the patient, the disease of the latter gets removed (cured) like mud or clay by washing. (V. 55-56).
CONCLUSION (UPASAMHARA) :
In the concluding verse 57, Sri Sankara Sen says that the mixed diseases are to be diagnosed in some case according to the Sastra or in some case according to the fitness of things or sometimes according to the place and time.
The knowledge of the science of pulse is not acquired by only study of the Sastras nor by teaching the Sastras relating to it. One becomes fully experienced in this knowledge by practices, such as, touching, feeling and reading the pulse of the patient with the concentration of mind on the subject like the practice of Yoga (Spiritual exercise). (V. 57)
Peculiarity of language, metres, style of writing, method of exposition, etc. adopted in the composition of Nadiprakasam;
The language of Nadiprakasum is uniform throughout its text. This work has been composed by Sri Sankara Sen in Sanskrit in poetic order with a Sanskrit commentary from the beginning to the end :
नाड़ीगतिरियं सम्यग्योगाभ्यासवदेकतः ।
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