Markandeya Purana — Chapter 25
MkP 25.1
आगम्य स्वपुरं सो ऽथ पित्रोः सर्वमशेषतः । कथयामास तन्वङ्गी यथा प्राप्ता पुनर्मृता
āgamya svapuraṃ so 'tha pitroḥ sarvamaśeṣataḥ / kathayāmāsa tanvaṅgī yathā prāptā punarmṛtā
Then, having come to his own city, he told his parents everything without omission — how the slender-limbed woman was obtained and how she died again.
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MkP 25.2
ननाम सा च चरणौ श्वश्रूश्वशुरयोः शुभा । स्वजनञ्च यथापूर्वं वन्दनाश्लेषणादिभिः
nanāma sā ca caraṇau śvaśrūśvaśurayoḥ śubhā / svajanañca yathāpūrvaṃ vandanāśleṣaṇādibhiḥ
And she, the lovely one, bowed at the feet of her mother-in-law and father-in-law, and (honoured) her kinsfolk as before with salutations, embraces and the like.
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MkP 25.3
पूजयामास तन्वङ्गी यथान्यायं यथावयः । ततो महोत्सवो जज्ञे पौराणां तत्र वै पुरे
pūjayāmāsa tanvaṅgī yathānyāyaṃ yathāvayaḥ / tato mahotsavo jajñe paurāṇāṃ tatra vai pure
The slender-limbed one paid honour according to propriety and according to age. Then there arose a great festival of the townsfolk there in that city.
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MkP 25.4
ऋतध्वजश्च सुचिरं तया रेमे सुमध्यया । निर्झरेषु च शैलानां निम्नगापुलिनेषु च
ṛtadhvajaśca suciraṃ tayā reme sumadhyayā / nirjhareṣu ca śailānāṃ nimnagāpulineṣu ca
And Ṛtadhvaja long took his pleasure with that fair-waisted woman, in the mountain waterfalls and on the sandbanks of the rivers,
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MkP 25.5
काननेषु च रम्येषु तथैवोपवनेषु च । पुण्यक्षयं वाञ्छमाना सापि कामोपबोगतः
kānaneṣu ca ramyeṣu tathaivopavaneṣu ca / puṇyakṣayaṃ vāñchamānā sāpi kāmopabogataḥ
and in the lovely forests and likewise in the pleasure-groves; and she too, desiring the exhaustion of her merit through the enjoyment of pleasure,
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MkP 25.6
सह तेनातिकान्तेन रेमे रम्यासु भूमिषु । ततः कालेन महता शत्रुजित् स नराधिपः
saha tenātikāntena reme ramyāsu bhūmiṣu / tataḥ kālena mahatā śatrujit sa narādhipaḥ
took her pleasure with that most beloved one in the delightful regions. Then, after a long time, that ruler of men Śatrujit,
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MkP 25.7
सम्यक् प्रशास्य वसुधां कालधर्ममुपेयिवान् । ततः पौरा महात्मानं पुत्रं तस्य ऋतध्वजम्
samyak praśāsya vasudhāṃ kāladharmamupeyivān / tataḥ paurā mahātmānaṃ putraṃ tasya ṛtadhvajam
having governed the earth well, met with the law of time (i.e. died). Then the townsfolk (consecrated) his great-souled son Ṛtadhvaja
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MkP 25.8
अभ्यषिञ्चन्त राजानमुदाराचारचेष्टितम् । सम्यक् पालयतस्तस्य प्रजाः पुत्रानिवौरसान्
abhyaṣiñcanta rājānamudārācāraceṣṭitam / samyak pālayatastasya prajāḥ putrānivaurasān
as king — him whose conduct and actions were noble. And as he protected them well, the subjects were to him like his own begotten sons.
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MkP 25.9
मदालसायाः सञ्जज्ञे पुत्रः प्रथमजस्ततः । तस्य चक्रे पिता नाम विक्रान्त इति धीमतः
madālasāyāḥ sañjajñe putraḥ prathamajastataḥ / tasya cakre pitā nāma vikrānta iti dhīmataḥ
Then a son, the first-born, was born of Madālasā; his father made a name for the wise boy: "Vikrānta."
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MkP 25.10
तुतुषुस्तेन वै भृत्या जहास च मदालसा । सा वै मदालसा पुत्रं बालमुत्तानशायिनम् । उल्लापनच्छलेनाह रुदमानमविस्वरम्
tutuṣustena vai bhṛtyā jahāsa ca madālasā / sā vai madālasā putraṃ bālamuttānaśāyinam / ullāpanacchalenāha rudamānamavisvaram
The retainers were pleased with it, and Madālasā laughed. And Madālasā, to her infant son lying on his back and crying in a tuneless voice, spoke under the pretext of a lullaby:
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MkP 25.11
शुद्धो ऽसि रे तात ! न ते ऽस्ति नाम कृतं हि ते कल्पनयाधुनैव । पञ्चात्मकं देहमिदं तवैतन् नैवास्य त्वं रोदिषि कस्य हेतोः
śuddho 'si re tāta ! na te 'sti nāma kṛtaṃ hi te kalpanayādhunaiva / pañcātmakaṃ dehamidaṃ tavaitan naivāsya tvaṃ rodiṣi kasya hetoḥ
"You are pure, my dear! You have no name; a name has been made for you only just now, by convention. This body of yours here is made of the five (elements); you are not this body — for whose sake, then, do you weep?
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MkP 25.12
न वा भवान् रोदिति वै स्वजन्मा शब्दो ऽयमासाद्य महीशशूनुम् । विकल्प्यमाना विविधा गुणास्ते ऽगुणाश्च भौताः सकलेन्द्रियेषु
na vā bhavān roditi vai svajanmā śabdo 'yamāsādya mahīśaśūnum / vikalpyamānā vividhā guṇāste 'guṇāśca bhautāḥ sakalendriyeṣu
Nor indeed do you weep, self-born one; it is this sound, having found the king's son (that weeps). The manifold qualities imagined as yours, and the non-qualities, belong to the elements, in all the sense-organs.
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MkP 25.13
भूतानि भूतैः परिदुर्बलानि वृद्धिं समायान्ति यथेह पुंसः । अन्नाम्बुपानादिभिरेव कस्य न ते ऽस्ति वृद्धिर्न च ते ऽस्ति हानिः
bhūtāni bhūtaiḥ paridurbalāni vṛddhiṃ samāyānti yatheha puṃsaḥ / annāmbupānādibhireva kasya na te 'sti vṛddhirna ca te 'sti hāniḥ
The elements, weak in themselves, come to increase by the elements — as happens here for a man, just by food, water, drink and the rest. Whose (increase is it)? For you there is no increase, nor is there any loss.
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MkP 25.14
त्वं कञ्चुके शीर्यमाणे निजे ऽस्मिंस् तस्मिंश्च देहे मूढतां मा व्रजेथाः । शुभाशुभैः कर्मभिर्देहमेतन् मदादिमूढैः सञ्चुकस्ते ऽपिनद्धः
tvaṃ kañcuke śīryamāṇe nije 'smiṃs tasmiṃśca dehe mūḍhatāṃ mā vrajethāḥ / śubhāśubhaiḥ karmabhirdehametan madādimūḍhaiḥ sañcukaste 'pinaddhaḥ
When this your own garment is wearing out, and likewise this body — do not fall into delusion. This body is a garment fastened onto you by good and bad deeds, by (people) deluded with pride and the rest.
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MkP 25.15
तातेति किञ्चित्तनयेति किञ्चिद् अम्बेति किञ्चिद्दयितेति किञ्चित् । ममेति किञ्चिन्न ममेति किञ्चित् त्वं भूतसङ्घं बहुमानयेथाः
tāteti kiñcittanayeti kiñcid ambeti kiñciddayiteti kiñcit / mameti kiñcinna mameti kiñcit tvaṃ bhūtasaṅghaṃ bahumānayethāḥ
Something (one calls) 'father', something 'son', something 'mother', something 'beloved', something 'mine', something 'not mine' — (but) you should think much of the aggregate of elements (as just that).
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MkP 25.16
दुः खानि दुः खोपगमाय भोगान् सुखाय जानाति विमूढचेताः । तान्येव दुः खानि पुनः सुखानि जानात्यविद्वान सुविमूढयेताः
duḥ khāni duḥ khopagamāya bhogān sukhāya jānāti vimūḍhacetāḥ / tānyeva duḥ khāni punaḥ sukhāni jānātyavidvāna suvimūḍhayetāḥ
The man of utterly deluded mind knows sufferings as leading to suffering and enjoyments as leading to happiness; but those very sufferings again (become) pleasures — the ignorant man, greatly deluded, (so) knows.
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MkP 25.17
हासो ऽस्थिसन्दर्शनमक्षियुग्मम् अत्युज्ज्वलं तर्जनमङ्गनायाः । कुचादिपीनं पिशितं घनं तत् स्थानं रतेः किं नरकं न योषित्
hāso 'sthisandarśanamakṣiyugmam atyujjvalaṃ tarjanamaṅganāyāḥ / kucādipīnaṃ piśitaṃ ghanaṃ tat sthānaṃ rateḥ kiṃ narakaṃ na yoṣit
A woman's laughter is the showing of bones; her pair of eyes exceedingly bright, her (glance) a threatening; her breasts and the rest are just swollen, thick flesh — that seat of pleasure: is a woman not a hell?
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MkP 25.18
यानं क्षितौ यानगतञ्च देहं देहे ऽपि चान्यः पुरुषो निविष्टः । ममत्वबुद्धिर्न तथा यथा स्वे देहे ऽतिमात्रं बत मूढतैषा
yānaṃ kṣitau yānagatañca dehaṃ dehe 'pi cānyaḥ puruṣo niviṣṭaḥ / mamatvabuddhirna tathā yathā sve dehe 'timātraṃ bata mūḍhataiṣā
The carriage is on the ground, the body is in the carriage, and in the body too another, the puruṣa, is seated; yet the sense of 'mine' is not toward those as it is, excessively, toward one's own body — alas, this is delusion.
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