The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c15.47

c15.47

The seventh chapter enumerates the forebodings of death, furnished by the anomalies of the shadow or the reflection of the body, as regards their state (*saṃsthāna*), their dimension (*pramāṇa*), their colour (*varṇa*) and their luminosity (*prabhā*). It adds diverse groups of the symptoms of the coming death.