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or sluggishness. " सुखितस्य स्थिरा ज्ञेया तथा बलवती" । " स्थिरा मन्दगमना, बलवती स्थौल्ये सति जाड्या रहिता" ।
It should be understood by the word "fa" that only the difference of the pulse of a healthy person from that of a patient is that the pulse of the latter is thick and dull or sluggish, but that of the former, though thick, there is no dullness or sluggishness. In other works it is also said about a healthy person that the man whose pulse is cool (i.e. slow-moving) in the morning, hot at noon, and running fast in the evening, was not attached with any disease for a long time and also would not be attached (for a long time) in future.
But there is this point of difference in this view, that if such movement of the pulse is short-lived (momentary) in the morning, at noon, and in the evening, then it should be understood that disease of that person took place for a short time before and it would not occur within a short time. The movement of the pulses of those, who are taking proper diet, becomes such. (4).
अथ वातादीनां क्रमेण स्वभावमाह
Next the nature of the pulse vitiated by bodily humours-vata (air or wind), pitta (bile or fire), and kaph (phlegm) is spoken:
1. Nadiprakasam, Commentary, P. 14
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