That man is considered as righteous who meets with dissolution when the Sun is in the northern declension, and at a time and under a constellation both of which are sacred and auspicious, He is righteous who, having purified himself of all sins and performed all his acts according to the best of his might and having abstained from giving pain to any man, meets with death when it comes.
आपन्ने तूत्तरां काष्ठां सूर्ये यो निधनं व्रजेत्। नक्षत्रे च मुहूर्ते च पुण्ये राजन् स पुण्यकृत्॥ अयोजयित्वा क्लेशेन जनं प्लाव्य च दुष्कृतम्। मृत्युनाऽऽत्मकृते नेह कर्म कृत्वाऽऽत्पशक्तिभिः॥