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id: madhava-nidana
title: Mādhava Nidāna
description: 'The classical manual of diagnosis and pathology (nidāna), standard reference for disease definition and the staging of pathogenesis the doṣa-āma-srotas vocabulary of this bundle feeds into.'
tags:
- reference
- madhava-nidana
- pathology
timestamp: '2026-07-09'
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# Mādhava Nidāna

The Mādhava Nidāna (Rogaviniścaya) of Mādhavakara (around the 8th century CE) became the standard text of diagnosis, so authoritative that the tradition says for nidāna, Mādhava. It organizes disease by definition, etiology, prodrome, and signs, operating the vocabulary this bundle documents: doṣa vitiation, āma, channel obstruction, and the staging of pathogenesis. It is cited here as the pathology-side consumer of the concepts rather than for new doctrine.
