The Compendium of Bheḷa 5.10
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5.10.1
Whether a living being has no shadow, or a dense shadow, / or whose shadow is broken, such a one does not live.
5.10.2
A person who sees what seems like lightning in a cloudless sky, / [or] whose head's shadow smokes, they know him as one who is no more.
5.10.3
One who sees the earth as cloth dyed red with lac, / or the sky as red, is killed by internal hemorrhage.
5.10.4
A man whose body-hair is bristling, who is overwhelmed with cough and phlegm, / and whose throat feels pierced by awns, they know him as one who is no more.
5.10.5
From whose temple the flesh has fallen away, whose eyes are dark grey, / and on whose face a powdery residue has appeared, his life has departed.
5.10.6
From whose hand the flesh is seen to have fallen away in a leprous person, / or in one free [from that disease], such a man does not live.
5.10.7
Whatever he eats, whether undigested or digested, / if he is afflicted with cough, dyspnea, and fever, there is no treatment for him.
5.10.8
Whose heart dries first when the embodied being has bathed, / his life does not endure beyond half a month.
5.10.9
A man struck by upward dyspnea who vomits blood, / or has colic with a ruptured abdomen, such a man does not live.
5.10.10
Whose internal burning is intense and who also suffers from cold externally, / or who perceives the sky as completely filled, he does not live.
5.10.11
Whose lips are both suppurated, dark blue like jambu fruit, / and whose head is swollen, his life has departed.
5.10.12
Whose torso becomes swollen while both shoulders are emaciated, / and having been purged, swells again with gas, he is just like a dead man.
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The excellent physician who correctly perceives this sensory knowledge / will know both the life and death of men.
Thus said the venerable Ātreya.
Thus ends the tenth chapter in the Section on Sensory Prognostics in the work of Bheḷa.
Chapter Eleven.
Now we shall explain [the chapter] on the flowering [of death]; thus said the venerable Ātreya.
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- Bheḷasaṃhitā — Bheḷa, Sanskrit