The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.9

On whose head powder resembling dry cow-dung is seen, / even when oiled, that living being gives up his body after a month.

In an emaciated person suffering from a phlegm disease, when there is depletion of phlegm, / and the ears and face become red, he does not survive beyond two months.

On whose palate liquid appearing red is seen, / when his blood and flesh are depleted, he does not survive beyond a month.

If one cannot see Arundhatī standing in the assembly of the Seven Sages, / that mortal is swiftly released from his life-breaths after the eighth month.

And [in whom] the mouth, tongue, and both palates / are completely covered with small, black [specks], such a one does not live.

For one suffering from head-heat and likewise afflicted with a phlegm disease, / if hiccups continuously flow out, one should indicate: 'This man is no more.'

Of which embodied being the body-hairs and head-hair appear singed, / or seem constantly bristling, such an embodied being does not live.

Whose teeth after some time appear red-like, / or lusterless and coated, such a one does not live.

Whose body appears as if smeared with alkali, / alike in heat and in cold, such an embodied being does not live.

On whose limbs, rough in color, a floating layer of water-droplets [appears], / though the limbs are not anointed with oil, such a one does not live.

In whom there is pain in a limb, and cracked, oozing blood / hangs down resembling a ball, his life has departed.

And a person who, in diabetes, urinates pale yellow [urine], / within five days he goes to dissolution into the five elements.

Restlessness, indigestion, and emaciation along with weakness— / in which living being these are observed, such a one does not live.

One who, dejected or helpless, is bereft of strength, / [and] contracts a disease marked by looseness [of the bowels], he is just like a dead man.

When a living being, repeatedly overcome by bile, / becomes bewildered in speech, he is just like a dead man.

A person who finds no pleasure either in sitting or in lying down, / and who eats tears, quickly meets his end.

Having mounted a monkey, he who does not realize his resolve, / men skilled in dreams say he is bound for the next world.

From which embodied being fever does not depart after a full year, / whether it be hot or cold, he is just like a dead man.

In one who has contracted urinary disease, if a pale boil appears / with complications, [like] a centipede, he is just like a dead man.

In whom wind courses upward, or hearing turns downward, / and all [faculties] break down, he is just like a dead man.

Having seen a person endowed with these signs, / the physician should not undertake treatment, O hero, thus clearly protecting his own reputation.
Thus said the venerable Ātreya.
Thus ends the ninth chapter in the Section on Sensory Prognostics in the work of Bheḷa.
Chapter Ten.
Now we shall explain the chapter on shadows; thus said the venerable Ātreya.