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Foot three years, shank two years, knee one year, thigh ten months, waist seven months, belly four months, neck one month, hand fifteen days, arm eight days, shoulder three days, and chest, head and his own shadow two days.
Detailed answer
Knowing this, the wise man is to give up his possessions and take initiation (diksha). The next verse adds signs of the senses: deformed eyebrows nine days, a sound like the samudraghosha in the ears seven days, a deformed nose five or four days, disordered light of the eyes three days and a deformed sense of taste one day, after which sallekhana is to be taken up.
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- Source pages with records
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- Chapters
- Appendix: Rishta
- Extraction tasks
- T29
- Record id
- qa_T29_03