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CRITICAL REVIEW OF NYAYA CHANDRIKA TIKA BY GAYADASA ACHARYA ON SUSHRUTA NIDANA STHANA

*Mallika, Khagen Basumatary and Vinit Kumar Sharma

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Abstract

Nyaya Chandrika is one of the great treatises composed by Gayadasa, the well-known Tikakarta or Panjikakara of Sushruta Samhita. Nyaya chandrika holds an important place amongst academicians, researchers and students of Ayurveda. All classics give importance to nidana because diagnosis and treatment of a disease never complete without the elicitation of all the factors associated with disease. Nyaya Chandrika gave reasoning and description about some unsolved puzzles in sushruta samhita (the most ancient representative of shalya tantra). Nidana Sthana gives the draft of many pathogenesis, premonitory symptoms, symptoms and prognosis of a disease. Elicitation of nidana is necessary for the proper identification of dosha, roga, roga bala, treatment and sadhya –asadhya of the disease. It gives simple, precise, logical and practical knowledge. To get a better understanding of basic principles of nidana in detail commentaries are helpful. Present paper will highlight the framework of Gayadasa, providing information about the author, text, characteristics & innovations. It will also throw a light towards the contribution of ‘Gayadasa’ in the field of Ayurveda.

Keywords: Ayurveda, Nyaya Chandrika, Gayadasa, Nidan, Sushruta Nidana Sthana.