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Meaning: I now relate to you, for the determination of the time of death, the external signs and symptoms which arise, causing a change in the flow of breath through the arteries due to the presence of diseases.
One should take into account these external indications concerning the eyes, ears, and head with reference to the sun. Other things also should be seen.
One should imagine that there is a lotus having sixteen petals in the left eye relating to the moon and a lotus having twelve petals in the right eye relating to the sun.
On pressing a certain part of the eye by the finger one would see four petals of each lotus in each eye having the lustre of a firefly.
One dies within six months, three months, two months, and one month if one does not see in the moon locus, the petal pointing downwards, pointing to the eye-brow, pointing to the corner of eye, and pointing to the nose respectively.
If the same phenomenon occurs in the right eye relating to the sun, by pressing the finger as said before, one dies within ten days, five days, three days and two days respectively; the sequence of the missing petal being the same as described in st. 122.
If the petals (of the lotuses) in both the eyes appear as narrated before without the finger being pressed, the person dies within a hundred days.
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