Markandeyapurana 43.2

43.2

devamārgaṃ dhruvaṃ śukraṃ somacchāyāmarundhatīm /
yo na paśyenna jīvet sa naraḥ saṃvatsarāt param //

“The man who does not see the path of the gods,[1] the pole-star, the planet Venus, the moon’s shadow and the morning star,[2] may not live more than a year. The man, who sees the sun’s orb devoid of rays and fire encircled with rays, does not live more than eleven months. He, who in his dreams clearly perceives gold and silver in his vomit and in his urine and fæces, may live ten months. He who sees departed persons, Piśācas and other demons and the cities of the Gandharvas and golden-coloured bulls, lives nine months. He who when stout becomes thin, and when thin becomes stout quite unaccountably, and loses his natural functions, lives for eight months. He, whose foot becomes cracked at the heel or at the toe in dust and in mud, lives seven months. If a vulture, a pigeon, a raven, or a crow, or a hawk, or a blue bird alights on one’s head, that indicates a life of six months. When a man is assailed by flocks of crows or a shower of dust, or when he sees his shadow unnatural, he lives four or five months. When he sees lightning flashing in the south in a cloudless sky, or sees a rainbow at night, his life will last two or three months. He who cannot see his own body in clarified butter, in oil, in a mirror, or in water, or who sees it head-less, does not live more than a month. When the smell from a yogi’s body resembles that of a goat or the smell from a corpse, know O king that his life will he half a month. When one’s breast and foot dry up immediately after he has bathed, and when water does not quench his thirst as he drinks, he lives ten days.