The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.12

Whose shadow is cast downward, or crooked, or becomes very small, / and whose eyes become unequal, his life is gone. 5.1

If an embodied being's eyelashes are miserable and do not close, / or both eyes burn, his life is gone.

Whose eyebrows are seen drooping or situated upon his forehead: / a sick person would live for three days, [and] one free of disease for six months.

When his hair is plucked out and he feels no pain, / and pleasure and pain have ceased for him, his life is gone.

On which patient's face an eruption or facial blemish is seen / for the first time, never seen before, his life is gone.

Whose bridge of the nose dries up, whose shoulder becomes broad / from wind in one suffering from cough, his life is gone.

Or who perceives his hands and feet as extremely hot, or extremely cold, / or stiff, or soft, his life is gone.

He who, having descended into a full river, sees a network in the water, / and whose body is not anointed by the water—they know of him that he is no more.

A man who constantly rolls his head and rolls his nose, / and whose forehead does not sweat, has no cure.

He who is feverish, or coughs, and likewise gasps deeply for breath, / is attacked [by weakness], and faints—he is just like a dead man.

Whose abdomen is completely distended, and its pathway is clearly visible, / with loose stools and thirst—he is just like a dead man.

The embodied being in whose house bell-metal constantly breaks, / and for whom the moon seems sharp and the sun mild, one should abandon him.

Whether non-dribbling or dribbling [bodily fluids], whether healthy or sick, / he who smells like sandalwood, such a person does not live.

And he who has swellings born like jasmine buds, and also smells like a road, / and who, not having eaten, smells like […] in childhood, does not live.

He who makes friends with enemies, acts disagreeably toward dear ones, / and becomes angry without cause, his life is gone.

An intelligent physician should not undertake to treat a patient / endowed with signs such as these and others, as appropriate.

Which physician understands this knowledge of fatal signs / as stated, he knows the Veda of life (Āyurveda); he is a physician skilled in the treatises. / Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya. / Thus ends the twelfth chapter in the Sensory Prognostics of Bhela. / Thus ends the Section on Sensory Prognostics in the Compendium of Bhela. // Section on Therapeutics // First Chapter // Now we shall explain the eleven medicated ghees; thus spoke the venerable Ātreya.