About this site

This site presents the Mādhavanidāna, a Sanskrit compendium on the diagnosis of disease traditionally attributed to Mādhavakara, together with two commentaries on it — the Madhukośa and the Ātaṅkadarpaṇa — in IAST (romanized, diacritic) transliteration.

The Sanskrit text is from the 1955 edition of the Mādhavanidāna edited by Yādavaśarman Trivikrama Ācārya.

The three registers

The root text and the two commentaries are distinguished typographically: the Mādhavanidāna is set in larger type at the full measure, while the two commentaries are set smaller and indented, each behind its own quiet rule. The commentaries can be hidden entirely with the control at the head of each chapter, leaving the root text to be read continuously.

The notes at the foot of each chapter (pāṭhāntarāḥ) record variant readings from the source edition.

Source

The Sanskrit text is drawn from the NIIMH e-Samhita, a project of the National Institute of Indian Medical Heritage (NIIMH), part of the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Government of India. The NIIHM website is extremely well designed and implemented, and users are recommended to use it. The present, simplified derivative is created for long-term archival preservation, stability, and ease of local consultation.

Known limitations

• Only the IAST (diacritical) rendering is included here; the original site also offers Devanagari and several other Indic scripts.
• Verse and chapter divisions follow the source edition.
• A very small number of words (currently one, in adhyāya 21) are left untagged by NIIMH’s own markup and could not be safely transliterated to IAST; they are shown in the source’s internal ASCII romanization instead, marked with a dotted underline.
• If you notice missing or garbled passages, please compare against the original site and open an issue at GitHub