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for six days, twenty four days should be deducted from the balance (1008 days). If for eight days, the person dies in course of nine hundred and thirty six days; if for nine days, the person dies within eight hundred and forty days; if for ten days, the person dies during seven hundred and twenty days. In the same manner, if the breath flows for eleven, twelve thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen days in the same nadi (Surya nadi, which means right artery), two, four, six, eight, or ten dozen days should be deducted respectively from seven hundred and twenty (mentioned for ten days in the previous stanza) days.
At the Paushna moment, if the breath flows in the manner shown previously for eleven days, the person, lives for six hundred ninetysix days; and if for twelve days, he dies within six hundred forty eight days.
If for thirteen days, the person lives for five hundred seventy six days; if for fourteen days the person lives for four hundred eighty days; if for fifteen, he lives for three hundred sixty days. If at the Paushpa moment, the breath at sunrise flows in the Surya nadi (right artery) continuously for five days after the fifteenth day, that is to say, on the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth, a dozen days for the sixteenth, two dozen days for the seventeenth, three dozen days for the eighteenth, four dozen days for the nineteenth and five dozen days for the twentieth should be deducted from number of days previously arrived at.. 156
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