Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

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

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Verse 7-8 deal with the method of examination of the pulse, while verse 9 mentions the subject of examination of the pulse whether the disease is vataja (disease produced by some derangement of bodily humour-vata-air) or pittaja (disease produced by some derangement of bodily humour-pitta-bile) or Kaphaja (disease produced by some derangement of bodily humour-Kaph-phlegm) or dvandvaja (disease produced by some derangement of two bodily humours-vata-pitta, vata-slesma and pitta-slesma) or Sanni pataja (disease produced by some derangement of three bodily humours-vata, pitta and kaph), or whether it is curable (sadhya) or incurable (asadhya).
Dvitiya Udyotah (second chapter) of Nadiprakasam comprising of twenty five verses discusses the auspicious time of studying (or examining) the science of pulse (Nadivijnanam); the prohibited time (Nisiddhakala) to examine the pulse; the nature of the course of faults-vata (air), pitta (bile or fire), etc. (vatadisvabhava); the meaning of the knowledge of health (svasthyajnanartham); the nature of the pulsesvataja, pittaja, and kaphaja by succession, the particularity of the general movement of the aforesaid vata, pitta and kaph (Vakradigatisamanyasya kramena visesat vam); the distinction of the movement of the pulse produced by some derangement of two bodily humours ( vatadi-dvandvaja-Nadigatibhedam); the movement of the pulse produced by some derangement of three bodily humours ( tridosajanadigatih ); symptom of easily curable diseases (sukhasadhya
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