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due to grief at the loss of son, etc. or in the case of occurrence of particular cause or incidents like these, the pulse can be sammurcchita (completely fainting), i.e. completely beatingless. But even though the pulse may be beatingless due to the above-mentioned causes like carrying load, etc. it is not incurable, it again comes to life. In other works it is said that in the case of fall from a great height, at the time of uniting broken bones, in atisara (dysentery), i.e. due to too much passing of stool in dysentery or in loss of semen-virile due to much sexual enjoyment or consumption, etc., the pulse may be beatingless. But in such conditions, even though the pulse may be devoid of beating, it is not incurable, it again becomes active.
It is also said that there is no fear, even if the pulse indicates the movement of vatadi (air, etc.) each fault, or double faults (dvandvajas) or combined three faults, (tridosas) respectively, or exceptionally incurable typhoid pulse is observed by the examination of the pulse of children drinking mother's milk, or that of a fainted dumb, or that of an insane, or that of a wicked man cursed by abhicara-abhisap (exorcising curse); because the pulses of those persons attain again the natural condition.
It is further said that the pulse may be beatingless in the case of ajirna (indigestion) Vataroga (rheumatism), exercise, sexual enjoyment and laborious work, in the heat of the sunshine, in tired
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