Nadivijnanam and Nadiprakasham

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

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(Sama gariyasi) steady, pulse of a person satisfied with food (sukhitas ya sthira); and restless pulse of a hungry person (Chapala ksudhitasya).
In this connection the knowledge of the conditions of the pulse in the case of taking suitable and unsuitable food is stated in verses 23-24.
Thick and hard pulse like the form of a stick in the case of taking nourishing and oily stuff, sweet and meat; jumping upwards, slow pulse in taking milk and jumpy pulse like a frog in taking sweet articles (flowing or solid). The movement of the pulse is sometimes like a snake or sometimes like a frog. As found in vatapittajarogu, if banana etc., molasses (treacle) and vada (a kind of cake) and rough and dry stuff are taken by a person. (V. 24)
Nadiprakasam presents the knowledge of taste of food affecting the movement of the pulse as given below :
The movement of the pulse is like that of a peacock in the case of taking sweet stuff; like that of an earth worm in that of taking bitter-tasting article; like that of a frog, slightly hot, in that of taking acidic stuff; like that of Bhringa (a kind of bird) in that of taking sour thing (V. 25); a hard and feeble pulse in taking astringent stuff; a straight and fast (speedy) pulse in taking saltish article (V. 26). There becomes a very hard pulse in the case of taking flowing stuff and a soft pulse in that of taking hard or solid substance, soft and hard pulse also in the
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