A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.159

v3.c46.159

The following elements of Rāvaṇa’s Nāḍīparīkṣā are absent from Kaṇāda’s Nāḍīvijñāna: ¹³⁰ the term jīvanāḍī and its attribution to Nandi(n); the reference to aṣṭasthānaparīkṣā; the differences in the examination of the pulses in men and women. The series of diseases mentioned together with the characteristics of the pulse observed in them is longer than in Kaṇāda’s work.¹³¹