Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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there takes place the agitation of the combined elements—vata and pitta.
The crooked, feeble, forceful, hollow, motionless, prostrate, slippery, sluggish, splitting, thready, tortuous, tremulous, fleshy, irregular, mild, porous, straight, torn, vanishing, and vibrating pulse reveals the intensity and agitation of the combined elementsvata and kaph (air and phlegm).
The pulse moves like a snake in one moment and like a gander at another moment when there takes place the agitation of the combined elements vata (air) and kaph slesma (phlegm).
The pulse moves like a frog at one moment and like a peacock at, another moment when there is the agitation of the combined elements-pitta (fire) and slesma or kaph (phlegm).3
The faltering, hairy, hesitating, non-compressible, pin-pointed, and trembling pulse indicates that there is the intensity and agitation of the there combined elements-vata, pitta, and kaph (air, bile, and phlegm).
The pulse relating to three elements of faultsvata, pitta, and kaph moves first like snake, leech, and scorpion; in the middle like lava-paksi (quail, frog,
1, 2. 3.
Nadiprakasam, ch. II. 8. Ibid., II. 9. Nadiprakasam Ch. II. 10.
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