Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

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

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different kinds of movement of the pulse of a patient, the prediction about the times of deaths of patients as indicated by the movements of their respective pulses, the longevity of a person as indicated by the movement of his pulse, the curability of a disease on the basis of the movement of the pulse of a patient.
Good-expression, purity of the pulse, staying at its own place, steadiness and non-slowness of the pulse indicating auspicious symptoms; fullness of fault of restlessness, hardness, too much slowness of the pulse, vomiting of blood, thinness of the pulse, leaving of its own place, its feebleness and its crooked movement indicating inauspicious symptoms. Thus the pulse's movement is the witness to the soul contained in the body.
In regard to the language, metre and style as discussed above, they represent an age different from the present in which Maharshi Kanada imparted his teachings on the science of pulse to his followers in particular to make them intelligible in poetic language. The total effect of the texture and spirit of the language of Nadivijnanam enriched with medical thoughts and ideas on the science of pulse inspires one to dive deep into its subject-matter with energy to collect the hidden treasure of the knowledge of the science of pulse preserved in this short treatise.
It is to be observed how the richnes of vocabulary in this work produces similar effect on the minds of the medical students by truly expressing
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