An ignorant person may sometimes wrongly perceive symptoms presenting in an individual as arishta lakshana and sometimes he may even not recognize the arishta lakshana presenting in an individual, all this is the result of intellectual errors.
To expound the knowledge about various premonitory symptoms preceding death as indicative of its imminence, we now illustrate the various kinds of such presentations in persons.
तमाहुः पुष्पितं धीरा नरं मरणलक्षणैः| स ना संवत्सराद्देहं जहातीति विनिश्चयः ||९||
all blooming with flowers, from his body day and night is called pushpita, and is indicative of forth coming death. Such a person is sure to die within a year.