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एकत्रिशदहचरे वायौ मृत्युदिनत्रये। द्वितीय दिवसे नाशो द्वात्रिंशदहवाहिनि ॥११५॥ त्रयस्त्रिशदहचरे त्वेकाहेनापि पञ्चता । एवं यदीन्दुनाडयां स्यात् तदा व्याध्यादिकं दिशेत् ॥११६॥ अध्यात्म वायुमाश्रित्य प्रत्येकं सूर्यसोमयोः ।
एवमभ्यासयोगेन जानीयात् कालनिर्णयम् ॥११७॥ Meaning : Now I will tell you how you should know the time of impending death. That can be known at the time of Paushna, which has a reference to the sun.
When the moon is in the birth place in the horoscope and the sun is at the seventh place from its original place, remaining there for the exact period that the moon remains in the birth-place, that time is called the Paushna. It is at this time that the accurate moment of the impending death becomes known.
If at that Paushna point of time, the breath flows for half a day in the Surya nadi (right artery), the person dies during the fourteenth year and if for the whole day (twelve hours), he succumbs in the twelfth year.
If at the Paushna point of time, the breath flows in the Surya nadi (right artery) for one full day (twentyfour hours), two, three, four or five full days, the person dies in the tenth, eighth, sixth, fifth, and third year respectively.
It is said that a person dies in three years if the breath flows for five days. Now if the breath flows
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