Prithakjataprakarana, Pṛthakjātaprakaraṇa, Prithakjata-prakarana: 1 definition

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The Sanskrit term Pṛthakjātaprakaraṇa can be transliterated into English as Prthakjataprakarana or Prithakjataprakarana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Ayurveda (science of life)

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Source: Indian Journal of History of Science: Jvaranirnaya: a rare monograph on diagnosis of fevers from the pre-colonial era

Pṛthakjātaprakaraṇa (पृथक्जातप्रकरण) refers to the second chapter of the Jvaranirṇaya: an Ayurvedic manuscript dealing exclusively with types of jvara (fevers) written by Sri Nārāyaṇa Paṇḍita in the 16th century CE.—The uniqueness of the text is that one can get a comprehensive classification, symptomatology and diagnosis of jvara, all at one place in this text. [...] Pṛthakjāta here means “caused by single Doṣa (ekadoṣa) specifically”. The cause (nidāna), prodromal symptoms (pūrvarūpa), symptoms (lakṣaṇa) and types that manifests due to the involvement or vitiation of a single doṣa , two doṣa , three doṣa and fever due to extrinsic causes (āgantu) are mentioned in this section. This section also deals with latent fevers (viṣamajvara) and the time taken for relief from different types of fevers.

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Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.

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