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The Compendium of Caraka 5.11

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5.11.1

Now we shall explain the Indriya chapter on the Diminishing Light.

5.11.2

Thus said the venerable Ātreya:

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One with diminished light, distracted, with an altered complexion, always despondent,
finding no pleasure, goes to the other world within a year.

5.11.4

One whose prepared food offerings the creatures that receive them do not eat
eats the funeral ball after going to the other world within a year.

5.11.5

The creature who does not see Arundhatī situated near the Seven Sages
sees the greatest darkness at the end of a year.

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One who, through morbidity and without cause, attains luster, bodily growth, or wealth,
or the loss thereof, his life lasts until the end of a year.

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Devotion, conduct, memory, generosity, intellect, and strength—
these six cease without cause six months before one dies.

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One on whose forehead an unprecedented network of vessels
is seen to be exceedingly bright does not live six months.

5.11.9

One whose forehead is overlaid with lines curved like the moon,
one should predict the end of his life in six months.

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Tremor of the body, stupor, and a gait and speech
like that of an intoxicated man: one in whom these are observed does not live a month.

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One whose semen, urine, and stool sink in water,
becoming hateful to his own kin, sinks into the water of death in a month.

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One whose hands, feet, and face particularly dry up,
or swell up apart from the rest of the body, does not live a month.

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One on whose forehead, crown, or bladder region a blue line
curved like the crescent moon shines forth cannot live.

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One on whose body smallpox eruptions resembling coral beads
arise and quickly vanish, perishes before long.

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Severe bruising pain in the neck, swelling of the tongue,
and inflammation of the groin, mouth, and throat: one should declare him ripe [for death].

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Confusion, excessive delirium, and extremely severe tearing pain of the bones:
these three appear in one enveloped by the noose of Time.

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Bewildered, a weak man driven by Time plucks at his hair,
seizes [things] excessively, and takes food like a healthy person.

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Holding his hands and fingers near his eyes, he searches for them;
blinded by Time, he also smiles, his eyes turned upward without blinking.

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From the bed, seat, limbs, wood, or even a wall,
bewildered and driven by Time, he searches for something nonexistent.

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Laughing at what is not funny, bewildered, licking his lips,
with cold feet, hands, and breath, that man does not live.

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Calling out to his own kinsman or anyone standing nearby,
his mind clouded by great delusion, even though looking he does not see.

5.11.22

Seeing simultaneously in the body non-action or excessive action
of the orifices and the rest, the wise physician should not administer medicine.

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Through excessive increase of diseases and from loss of mental strength,
the embodied soul quickly abandons its dwelling called the body.

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Complexion, voice, digestive fire, strength, and the power of speech, senses, and mind
decline at the loss of life; sleep becomes either continuous or absent.

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Those who hate the physician, medicine, drink, food, elders, and friends,
all these should be known as under the sway of Samavartin.

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In them the disease advances, and medicine is thwarted;
one should not eat their food, nor even touch their water.

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All four pillars assembled and endowed with effective qualities
are useless for one whose lifespan is spent; without the substance, there is no arising of qualities.

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Lifespan must be examined by the physician in both the healthy and the sick,
for the entire fruit of medical knowledge attends the knower of lifespan.

5.11.29

Here is a verse:

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When doṣas have passed beyond the path of treatment and pervaded the entire body,
the sign they make is called an ariṣṭa.

5.11.29_2

Thus ends the eleventh chapter, named "The Indriya on the Diminishing Light," in the Indriyasthāna of the treatise composed by Agniveśa and redacted by Caraka. //11

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