Hārīta's Compendium of Medicine 2.6
English (machine translation) 2.6
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2.6.1
Ātreya said: / He who was mild-mannered becomes wrathful, and he who was wrathful assumes a mild character— / both of these, O knower of rules, bring death; a stout man [becomes] lean-bodied more swiftly.
2.6.2
He who is virtuous by nature becomes sinful here, or if an evil soul becomes devoted to virtue, / he swiftly partakes of death here; and whoever by innate constitution undergoes a morbid alteration,
2.6.3
he who is fair-complexioned acquires blackness, and he who is dark acquires extreme fairness— / in this way a man meets death; through morbid alteration of his natural constitution he swiftly undergoes departure [from life].
2.6.4
He who perceives sounds inverted in hearing, or swiftly ceases to hear, / he indeed sees death; and he who cannot see his own shadow fallen upon the earth.
2.6.4.p1
Or he who, impaired in his sensory organs, falls into emaciation,
[or who being] corpulent has a body utterly devoid of lustre—he will behold death.
2.6.5
He who cannot perceive a foul smell anywhere, nor taste— / that man truly enters the dearest grasp of death.
2.6.6
Upon smelling the odour of whose mouth blue flies settle, / or on his nose or body—he surely goes to the realm of Yama.
2.6.6.p1
Thus ends [the chapter] named 'Disorders of the Five Senses', in the second section of the additional part of Hārīta spoken by Ātreya,
2.6.5-2
the fifth chapter.