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The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.

In indigestion, blackening of the tongue, teeth, nails and lips, severe vomiting, sunken eyes, loss of voice, loss of memory and slack limbs are said to be signs that the patient will soon…

When pox is accompanied by severe colic, stupor, bleeding from the mouth and nose, burning, swelling, confusion, excessive delirium, great thirst and deep fainting, it quickly takes life.

The text says that a discerning person who directly sees fatal signs should give up all possessions, go to a pure, quiet and beautiful place to the north or east, worship the guardian of…

A child born of parents with kushtha through vitiated menstrual blood and semen who is badly affected is incurable; severe eye disease, loss of voice and pus flowing from the sores are the…

As heavy clouds make rain certain, distinct fatal signs mean death will come soon; the learned physician decides this in his own mind before speaking, judging the life span from abnormal…

For knowers of truth who wish to destroy all karmic enemies and win liberation, the author promises to describe, with their signs and according to the words of Lord Mahavira, the fatal…

He should leave home, vehicles, family and all possessions and go north or east to a large, pure, quiet place free of creatures, such as a place of pilgrimage, a Jina temple, a garden or a…

An appendix chapter on rishta, the signs said to announce approaching death in people who still seem healthy. After an invocation and rules on when death may be announced, it lists signs…

The wise physician should leave patients showing these death signs and those tormented by injury to vital points, and treat the rest; the signs of the vital points (marma) are described…

Having understood the death signs in healthy people revealed by the words of the great sage Ugradityacharya, the best of sages should keep firmness and steadiness of mind, reflect on the…

Lists further death signs, from sleeping day and night or not at all, insensitivity to burns, not seeing one's reflection and seeing ghosts, to lice on the forehead and perceiving…

Patients with grave marma involvement, pains that vanish suddenly without treatment, changed nature, black teeth, black hard tongue and lips, stiff, sunken, red or protruding eyes,…

The teaching on rishta is called a secret handed down through the canon of great sages who knew the highest truth; it is set out for people devoted to good contemplation, not for those…

On seeing such signs directly, the discerning person should leave home, vehicles, family and all possessions and go north or east to a large, beautiful, pure and quiet place free of living…

A vidradhi in which aggravated vata brings breathlessness, cough, hiccup, anorexia, distension, colic, fever, heat, a bound-up feeling and immobility, and whose pus comes out upward, is…

Kushtha, the second of the major diseases in chapter 11, is said to arise from all the vitiated doshas and to take eighteen forms. The text gives its pathogenesis (wrong conduct or…

Animal (jaṅgama) poison is described as very dreadful and of sixteen kinds by its seat in the creature, with the creatures that carry each kind; it has the same ten qualities as immobile…

Raktapitta is described as blood, corrupted in the liver and spleen by vata and pitta after vata, injury or heat, flowing upward, downward or both ways. Its prodromes, incurable and fatal…

A thin body, like a stout one, is called very blameworthy and unfit for carrying loads or riding.

Chapter 12 treats piles as a major disease: causes, six kinds with their signs, sites in the anal folds, prodromes, its name mularoga, fatal signs, related growths elsewhere and their…

The wise physician is told to leave aside patients afflicted by pain from injury to the vital points, together with those showing fatal signs, and to treat the remaining patients.

A pricking pain that moves about in the abdomen is given as the brief sign of aggravated vāta.

Masurika (pox; called devi, mata or chechak in the commentary) is described as lentil-like eruptions of many colours and shapes, arising mainly from pitta, with dosha and blood types,…