Madhava-Nidana is generally considered to be a compilation work, however, it includes many original contributions of Madhavakar. He has identified and described several new disease entities e.g. amavata, parinamasula, amplapitta etc, even though some of them were implicit in texts describing treatment, which goes to show that not only his textual knowledge was sound but he was a keen observer and a practical physician also. This is a book of high order and is ...
