Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

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

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explaining the medical concepts on the science of pulse made them easily comprehensible to the students of Ayurveda as for example :
Literary flourishes :
लावतित्तिरिवार्त्ताक गमनं कदाचिन्मन्दगा नाड़ी कदाचिच्छीघ्रगा
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वात्तस्य शल्याभिहतस्य जन्तोर्वेगावरोधाकुलितस्य भूयः । गतिं विधत्तं धमनी गजेन्द्र मरालमालेव कफोब्वणेन ॥
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चाञ्चाल्यदोषपूर्णत्वं
रक्तं वमति सूक्ष्मत्वं स्वस्थानस्य गतिकौटिल्यं
स्तैमित्यं
सर्व्वासां
सन्निपाततः ।
भवेत् ।।
(V. 6)
काठिन्यमतिमन्दता ।
विमोक्षणम् ||
Estimate of the literary and asthetic aspects of Nadivijnanam :
(V. 20)
दुषृलक्षणम् ।।
The author made a study of the science of pulse with the purpose of attaining result and truth with devotion on the basis of his scheme in his short treatise. He searched out something and got a line of meaning in the facts of the science of pulse as satisfying his inquisitive mind. Here the style of expression is scientific. So the voice of words spoken by him is impersonally logical with a stress laid on the science of pulse.
(V. 64)
Literature big or small, is to be judged by its value to humanity. Its value is determined by the
Introduction
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