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## Various Means of Knowing Death
**Yoga Shastra Pancham Prakash Sloka 140 to 151**
**602.** If one sees vomit, urine, feces, or gold or silver in a dream, then he will live for nine months. || 140 ||
**603.** If a person suddenly becomes fat or suddenly becomes thin, or suddenly becomes angry or cowardly, then he will live for only eight months. || 141 ||
**604.** If one's foot appears incomplete when placed on dust or mud, then he will die in seven months. || 142 ||
**605.** If one sees a black star, and his palate dries up, and he cannot fit three fingers between his upper and lower teeth, then he will die in six months. || 143 ||
**606.** If a vulture, crow, pigeon, or any other carnivorous bird sits on one's head, then he will die in six months. || 144 ||
**607.** If one sees a rainbow in the water he throws up in the sky on a cloudless day, then he will live. || 145 ||
**608.** If one does not see the rainbow in the water he throws up in the sky on a cloudless day, then he will die in six months. If one cannot see his own body in the pupil of another's eye, then he will die in six months. || 146 ||
**609.** If one places his elbows on his knees and his hands on his head, and sees a shadow like a lotus bud between his hands, then he should observe it carefully. || 147 ||
**610.** If one sees a single petal blooming in that shadow, then he will die on that day, in six months. || 148 ||
**611.** If one sees, in the daytime, in the sky, serpents with the radiance of an indigo gem, crooked in shape, adorned with thousands of pearls, and with subtle forms, coming towards him, then he will live. || 149 ||
**612.** If one does not see those serpents, then he will die in six months. || 150 ||
**613.** If one sees in a dream a person with a shaved head, anointed with oil, wearing a garland of red flowers, and going towards him, then he will live. || 151 ||