Bull Indian Inst Hist Med Hyderabad. 1999 Jan; 29(1): 1-13.

Definition of Nidana Pancaka (first chapter of Madhavanidana).

Ali M.

Indian Institute of History of Medicine, Hyderabad, India.

This is in continuation of the previous article published in this Bulletin of the Indian Institute of the History of Medicine, Volume XXVII, No. 2, July 1997. P. Nos 163 to 171, under the title of "Definition of Nidana Panchaka (First Chapter of Madhava Nidana"). It deals with Nadana, Purvarupa, Rupa, Upashaya and Samprapti as described in the first Chapter of Madhavanidana.