Excessive giddiness, extreme delirium and severe piercing type of pain in bones, manifestation of these three symptoms together indicates that the person is captured by death.
समीपे चक्षुषोः कृत्वा मृगयेताङ्गुलीकरम्| स्मयतेऽपि च कालान्ध ऊर्ध्वगानिमिषेक्षणः ||१८||
The person who searches for his own fingers and hands putting them before his eyes and smiles with upward gaze and unblinking should be considered as blinded by approaching death.
शयनादासनादङ्गात् काष्ठात् कुड्यादथापि वा| असन्मृगयते किञ्चित् स मुह्यन् कालचोदितः ||१९||
A person who is lying on his bed but is searching for his bed continuously, sitting on chair and searching his own seat, searching his own organs, walking with the stick and searching the same, and searching the walls of his own room, or while working with something and searching the same, are the symptoms of the imminent death of that person.
अहास्यहासी सम्मुह्यन् प्रलेढि दशनच्छदौ| शीतपादकरोच्छ्वासो यो नरो न स जीवति ||२०||
Person who laughs without any reason, acts stupid, teeth and gums are covered with dirt, biting his lips and whose feet, arms are too cold and disappointingly takes long breaths will not survive for long.