Nari vijnana or an exposition of the pulse / by the renowned physician-sage ... Kanada, translated into English by Kaviraj Dhurmo Das Sen Gupta.

  • Kaṇāda, Maharshi.
Date:
1893
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    of his Pulse at a particular time, is manifested nowhere more signally than in their predictions of a patient’s expiry. The judgment which they display in this matter is sometimes—nay, oftener than not, marvellous and appears like intuition, I venture to lay special stress on this point, because it demonstrably shows the profound knowledge the Hindu physician-sages possess of the Pulse and its subtle movements. The Hindu Physician-sages have arrived at these results after a long and close study of the 'Pulse ; but the Divine force, that, working within life and mind, produces the many and various—I might almost say—infinite modifications, physiological and psychological, is past the comprehension of humanity. The gulf that separates the Creator and the created is immeasurable; and the highest human intelligence can by no effort, that it can put forth, comprehend the Divine workings in the human system. We are verily fearfully and wonderfully made,—man is, in good sooth, a microcosm, and, as Protagoras has profoundly observed, he constitutes in himself the measure of the Universe. The fore¬ going observations must therefore be taken with the necessary limitations, having regard to the im¬ perfection and fallibility of the human understand¬ ing and the abstruse and recondite nature of the subject discussed,,,