Verse 12

¹²What are many years to a heedless man here, years that pass where he cannot see them? Better one hour lived knowingly, since from that a man's good is brought about. ¹³A royal sage named Khatvanga, learning how much of his life was left him here, let go of everything within the hour and went to Hari, where there is no fear. ¹⁴For you too, son of Kuru, the term of life now stands at seven days. In that time make ready everything that belongs to the passage beyond. ¹⁵When the last hour has come, let a man put his alarm from him and cut with the sword of not clinging his longing for the body and for those who come after it.

¹⁶Gone out from his house, steady, bathed in the water of a holy ford, let him sit in a clean and solitary place upon a seat made ready as the rule directs,