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Signs of approaching death
अरिष्ट लक्षण · अरिष्टलक्षण
Death signs are described as a reversal of the patient's constitution, natural disposition, shadow, form and chief characteristics, a derangement of the five senses, and faeces and phlegm…
Session
Signs of approaching death
रिष्टाध्याय
Principle
The physician (vaidya)
वैद्य (चिकित्सक) · वैद्य
The editor reports the author's explanation of the word vaidya (chapter 1, verse 18): vidyā is omniscience (kevalajñāna), which reveals the characteristics of the soul (jīva) and all other…
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Appendix: the chapter on fatal signs (rishta)
परिशिष्ट रिष्टाध्याय · अथ परिशिष्टरिष्टाध्याय:
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…
Question
What does the rishta appendix call rishta, and to whom should approaching death be announced?
रिष्टाध्याय रिष्ट किसे कहता है, और निकट मृत्यु की सूचना किसे देनी चाहिए?
Whatever signs appear that are wholly contrary to a person's own earlier nature and disposition are called rishta by the Jinas. Death should never be announced to people gripped by fear of…