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•XXVI. 108 ] SPECIAA REPRESENTATION 507

Representation of death

102-103. Representation of death which may arise from different conditions will be of different nature. [For example] sometimes it is indicated by throwing out all the hands and feet, and sometimes by a paralysis of movement of all the limbs¹.

Death from disease

103-104. Death from an attack of disease should be represented by an occurrence of hiccough, [hard] breathing and imperceptible movement of limbs which should be relaxed¹.

Death from drinking poison

104-105. Death from drinking poison should be represented by throwing out of hands and feet and other limbs, and the power of the poison will lead to the quivering action of the [different] parts of the body.

The eight stages in death from poison

105-107. The first stage of the action of poison is the general weakness of the body, the second tremor, the third a burning sensation, the fourth hiccough, the fifth froth [in the mouth], the sixth breaking of the neck, the seventh paralysis and the eighth death¹.

Weakness

107-108. Eyes with sunken eyeballs [depressed] cheeks, lips, belly and shoulder and feebleness of arms will represent [general] Weakness¹.

Tremor

108-109. Tremor (vepathu) should be represented by shaking simultaneously according to the situation the head, the hands and the feet or one of these limbs separately.

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हिक्काश्वासोपेतौ मूर्च्छोपगतौ तु मरणवत् कथयेत् । अनिम्(?)एतेष्वपि कार्यं पाठ्यं पुनरुक्तसं प्रयुक्तम् (हिक्काश्वासोपेतमनगंचित मूर्च्छनं मरणं कथनीशो etc. C.

102-103 (C.97b-98a; K.XXV.102). ¹ Read sannais tathā gātraiḥ (sarvais tathā gātraiḥ, C. saṃtrais tathā kāryaḥ, K.).

103-104 (C.98b-99a; K.XXV.103). ¹ K. reads 104a as follows : व्याधिषुते तु मरणं विषवग्गतेष संप्रयोक्तव्यम्. 104-105 (C.99b-100a, K.XXV.104).

105-107 (C;100b-102a; K.XXV.105-106). ¹ Read kārśya, K.(kārya,C.)

107-108 (C.102b-103a; K.XXV.107). ¹ praviṣṭatārake, C. (pravṛd-dha-tālake, K). 108-109 (C.103bc; K.XXV.108).