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The Compendium of Caraka 5.10

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5.10.1

Now we shall explain the indriya entitled "Immediate Death."

5.10.2

Thus spoke the venerable Ātreya:

5.10.3

For one whose vital breaths are about to cease immediately, I shall explain individually
the signs, Agniveśa, touched by which one does not live.

5.10.4

A fully developed, dread vātāṣṭhīlā located in the chest
of one overcome with thirst immediately robs his life.

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Making the calf muscles flaccid and making the nose crooked,
wind roaming through the body immediately robs life.

5.10.6

Whose eyebrows have fallen from their place, and who has severe internal burning:
his hiccup-causing disease immediately robs his life.

5.10.7

In one whose blood and flesh are depleted, upward-moving wind roaming
across both carotids evenly immediately robs life.

5.10.8

Wind moving suddenly between the anus and the navel,
seizing the groins of an emaciated man, immediately robs his life.

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Spreading the tips of the ribs and seizing the chest,
wind immediately robs the life of one who is motionless with wide-open eyes.

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Seizing both the heart and the anus, powerful wind,
especially in a weak person, immediately robs life.

5.10.11

Seizing both the groin and the anus, powerful wind,
producing dyspnea in a person, immediately robs life.

5.10.12

[Affecting] the navel, urine, bladder neck, and stool,
wind producing sharp cutting colic immediately robs life.

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One whose two groins are split all around by vāta-pains,
with loose stool and thirst, immediately abandons life.

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One whose whole body here is flooded by wind,
with loose stool and thirst, immediately loses life.

5.10.15

One whose embodied body is swollen with a vāta-swelling,
with loose stool and thirst, immediately loses life.

5.10.16

One who has cutting pain arising from the stomach,
with loose stool and thirst, immediately abandons life.

5.10.17

One who has cutting pain arising from the colon,
with thirst and fierce retention of stool, immediately loses life.

5.10.18

Establishing itself in the colon, striking down consciousness,
and producing a rattling in the throat, wind immediately takes away life.

5.10.19

Teeth looking smeared with mud, a face resembling powder,
and limbs sweating: these are the marks of one about to die immediately.

5.10.20

Afflicted with thirst, dyspnea, head diseases, stupor, debility, and moaning,
and with diarrhea, the patient quickly abandons life.

5.10.21

Here is a verse:

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He who properly understands these marks
understands both the life and the death of mortals.

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Thus ends the tenth chapter, named "Fatal Signs of Immediate Death," in the Indriyasthāna of the treatise composed by Agniveśa and redacted by Caraka. //10

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