Markandya Purana (Markendya Rishi)
मार्कण्डेयपुराणम्
The Markandeya Purana is one of the eighteen major Puranas, a Sanskrit text. It includes the famous Devi Mahatmya section, which praises the goddess Devi.
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 1
नरकात प्रतिमुक्तस्तु कृमिः पतितयाजकः।।
narakāt pratimuktastu kṛmiḥ patitayājakaḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 2
तज्जायां मनसावाञ्छन तद्द्रव्यञ्चाप्यसंशयम।।
tajjāyāṃ manasāvāñchan taddravyañcāpyasaṃśayam||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 3
मातापितरावाक्रुश्य शारिका सम्प्रजायते।।
mātāpitarāvākruśya śārikā samprajāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 4
तामेव पीडयित्वा तु कच्छपत्वं प्रपद्यते।।
tāmeva pīḍayitvā tu kacchapatvaṃ prapadyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 5
सो ऽपि मोहसमापन्नो जायते वानरो मृतः।।
so 'pi mohasamāpanno jāyate vānaro mṛtaḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 6
असूयकश्च नरकान्मुक्तो भवति राक्षसः।।
asūyakaśca narakānmukto bhavati rākṣasaḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 7
धान्यं यवांस्तिलान माषान कुलत्थान सर्षपांश्चणान।।
dhānyaṃ yavāṃstilān māṣān kulatthān sarṣapāṃścaṇān||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 8
शस्यान्यन्यानि वा हृत्वा मोहाज्जन्तुरचेतनः।।
śasyānyanyāni vā hṛtvā mohājjanturacetanaḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 9
परदाराभिमर्षात्तु वृको घोरो ऽभिजायते।।
paradārābhimarṣāttu vṛko ghoro 'bhijāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 10
भ्रातृभार्याञ्च दुर्बुद्धिर्यो धर्षयति पापकृत।।
bhrātṛbhāryāñca durbuddhiryo dharṣayati pāpakṛt||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 11
सखिभार्यां गुरोर्भार्यां राजभार्याञ्च पापकृत।।
sakhibhāryāṃ gurorbhāryāṃ rājabhāryāñca pāpakṛt||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 12
यज्ञ-दान-विवाहानां विघ्रकर्ता भवेत कृमिः।।
yajña-dāna-vivāhānāṃ vighrakartā bhavet kṛmiḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 13
देवता-पितृ-विप्राणामदत्वा यो ऽन्नमश्नुते।।
devatā-pitṛ-viprāṇāmadatvā yo 'nnamaśnute||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 14
ज्येष्ठं पितृसमं वापि भ्रातरं यो ऽवमन्यते।।
jyeṣṭhaṃ pitṛsamaṃ vāpi bhrātaraṃ yo 'vamanyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 15
शूद्रश्च ब्राह्मणरिं गत्वा कृमियोनौ प्रजायते।।
śūdraśca brāhmaṇariṃ gatvā kṛmiyonau prajāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 16
शूकरः कृमिको मद्गुश्चण्डालश्च प्रजायते।।
śūkaraḥ kṛmiko madguścaṇḍālaśca prajāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 17
कृतघ्रः कृमिकः कीटः पतङ्गो वृश्चिकस्तथा।।
kṛtaghraḥ kṛmikaḥ kīṭaḥ pataṅgo vṛścikastathā||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 18
अशस्त्रं पुरुषं हत्वा नरः सञ्जायते खरः।।
aśastraṃ puruṣaṃ hatvā naraḥ sañjāyate kharaḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 19
भोजनं चोरयित्वा तु मक्षिका जायते नरः।।
bhojanaṃ corayitvā tu makṣikā jāyate naraḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 20
ह्त्वान्नन्तु स मार्जारो जायते नरकाच्च्युतः।।
htvānnantu sa mārjāro jāyate narakāccyutaḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 21
घृतं हृत्वा च नकुलः काको मद्गुरजामिषम।।
ghṛtaṃ hṛtvā ca nakulaḥ kāko madgurajāmiṣam||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 22
वीचीकाकस्त्वपहृते लवणे दधनि कृमिः।।
vīcīkākastvapahṛte lavaṇe dadhani kṛmiḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 23
यस्तु चोरयते तैलं तैलपायी स जायते।।
yastu corayate tailaṃ tailapāyī sa jāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 24
चोरयित्वा तु निष्पावान जायते गृहगोलकः।।
corayitvā tu niṣpāvān jāyate gṛhagolakaḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 25
अयो हृत्वा तु पापात्मा वायसः सम्प्रजायते।।
ayo hṛtvā tu pāpātmā vāyasaḥ samprajāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 26
हृत्वा तु काञ्चनं भाण्डं कृमियोनौ प्रजायते।।
hṛtvā tu kāñcanaṃ bhāṇḍaṃ kṛmiyonau prajāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 27
कोषकारश्च कौषेये हृते वस्त्रे ऽभिजायते।।
koṣakāraśca kauṣeye hṛte vastre 'bhijāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 28
तथैवाजाविकं हृत्वा वस्त्रं क्षौमं च जायते।।
tathaivājāvikaṃ hṛtvā vastraṃ kṣaumaṃ ca jāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 29
मयूरो वर्णकान हृत्वा शाकपत्रं च जायते।।
mayūro varṇakān hṛtvā śākapatraṃ ca jāyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 30
छुच्छुन्दरिः शुभान गन्धान वासो हृत्वा शशो भवेत।।
chucchundariḥ śubhān gandhān vāso hṛtvā śaśo bhavet||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 31
पुष्पापहृद दरिद्रश्च पङ्गुर्यानापहृन्नरः।।
puṣpāpahṛd daridraśca paṅguryānāpahṛnnaraḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 32
भूहर्ता नरकान गत्वा रौरवादीन सुदारुणान।।
bhūhartā narakān gatvā rauravādīn sudāruṇān||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 33
प्राप्य क्षीणाल्पपापस्तु नरो भवति वै ततः।।
prāpya kṣīṇālpapāpastu naro bhavati vai tataḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 34
गोत्वं प्राप्य च चण्डाल-पुक्कसादि जुगुप्सितम।।
gotvaṃ prāpya ca caṇḍāla-pukkasādi jugupsitam||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 35
मुखरोगाक्षिरोगैश्च गुदरोगैश्च बाध्यते।।
mukharogākṣirogaiśca gudarogaiśca bādhyate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 36
एष एव क्रमो दृष्टो गोसुवर्णापहारिणाम।।
eṣa eva kramo dṛṣṭo gosuvarṇāpahāriṇām||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 37
जायामन्यस्य पुरुषः पारख्यां प्रतिपादयन।।
jāyāmanyasya puruṣaḥ pārakhyāṃ pratipādayan||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 38
यः करोति नरो होममसमिद्धे विभावसौ।।
yaḥ karoti naro homamasamiddhe vibhāvasau||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 39
परनिन्दा कृतघ्रत्वं परमर्मावघट्टनम।।
paranindā kṛtaghratvaṃ paramarmāvaghaṭṭanam||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 40
परस्वहरणाशौचं देवतानाञ्च कुत्सनम।।
parasvaharaṇāśaucaṃ devatānāñca kutsanam||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 41
यानि च प्रतिषिद्धानि तत्प्रवृत्तिश्च सन्तता।।
yāni ca pratiṣiddhāni tatpravṛttiśca santatā||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 42
दया भूतेषु संवादः परलोकप्रतिक्रिया।।
dayā bhūteṣu saṃvādaḥ paralokapratikriyā||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 43
गुरु-देवर्षि-सिद्धर्षिपूजनं साधुसङ्गमः।।
guru-devarṣi-siddharṣipūjanaṃ sādhusaṅgamaḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 44
अन्यानि चैव सद्धर्मङ्क्रियाभूतानि यानि च।।
anyāni caiva saddharmaṅkriyābhūtāni yāni ca||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 45
एतदुद्देशतो राजन भवतः कथितं मया।।
etaduddeśato rājan bhavataḥ kathitaṃ mayā||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 46
त्वया दृष्टो हि नरकस्तदेह्यन्यत्र गम्यताम।।
tvayā dṛṣṭo hi narakastadehyanyatra gamyatām||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 47
ततश्च सर्वैरुत्क्रुष्टं यातनास्थायिभिर्नृभिः।।
tataśca sarvairutkruṣṭaṃ yātanāsthāyibhirnṛbhiḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 48
त्वदङ्गसङ्गी पवनो मनो ह्लादयते हि नः।।
tvadaṅgasaṅgī pavano mano hlādayate hi naḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 49
अपहन्ति नरव्याघ्र यदां कुर महीपते।।
apahanti naravyāghra yadāṃ kura mahīpate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 50
पप्रच्छ कथमेतेषामाह्लादो मयि तिष्ठति।।
papraccha kathameteṣāmāhlādo mayi tiṣṭhati||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 51
आह्लाददायिनी व्युष्टिर्येनेयं तदुदीरय।।
āhlādadāyinī vyuṣṭiryeneyaṃ tadudīraya||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 52
पुष्टिमभ्यागता यस्मात तद्गतं च मनो यतः।।
puṣṭimabhyāgatā yasmāt tadgataṃ ca mano yataḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 53
पापकर्मकृतो राजन यातना न प्रबाधते।।
pāpakarmakṛto rājan yātanā na prabādhate||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 54
ततस्त्वद्दर्शनाद्याम्या यन्त्रशस्त्राग्निवायसाः।।
tatastvaddarśanādyāmyā yantraśastrāgnivāyasāḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 55
मृदुत्वमागता राजन तेजसापहतास्तव।।
mṛdutvamāgatā rājan tejasāpahatāstava||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 56
यदार्तजन्तुनिर्वाण-दानोत्थमिति मे मतिः।।
yadārtajantunirvāṇa-dānotthamiti me matiḥ||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 57
ततो भद्रमुखात्राहं स्थास्ये स्थाणुरिवाचलः।।
tato bhadramukhātrāhaṃ sthāsye sthāṇurivācalaḥ||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 58
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 58
भुङ्क्ष्व भोगानपास्येह यातनाः पापकर्मणाम।।
bhuṅkṣva bhogānapāsyeha yātanāḥ pāpakarmaṇām||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 59
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 59
मत्सन्निधानात सुखिनो भवन्ति नरकौकसः।।
matsannidhānāt sukhino bhavanti narakaukasaḥ||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 60
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 60
यो नार्तमनुगृह्णाति वैरिपक्षमपि ध्रुवम।।
yo nārtamanugṛhṇāti vairipakṣamapi dhruvam||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 61
भवन्ति तस्य यस्यार्त-परित्राणे न मानसम।।
bhavanti tasya yasyārta-paritrāṇe na mānasam||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 62
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 62
वृद्धेषु च न तं मन्ये मानुषं राक्षसो हि सः।।
vṛddheṣu ca na taṃ manye mānuṣaṃ rākṣaso hi saḥ||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 63
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 63
तथोग्रगन्धजं वापि दुः खं नरकसम्भवम।।
tathogragandhajaṃ vāpi duḥ khaṃ narakasambhavam||
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Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 64
एतेषां त्राणदानन्तु मन्ये स्वर्गसुखात परम।।
eteṣāṃ trāṇadānantu manye svargasukhāt param||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 65
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 65
किन्नु प्राप्तं मया न स्यात तस्मात त्वं व्रज माचिरम।।
kinnu prāptaṃ mayā na syāt tasmāt tvaṃ vraja māciram||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 66
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 66
अवश्यमस्माद गन्तव्यं तस्मात पार्थिव! गम्यताम।।
avaśyamasmād gantavyaṃ tasmāt pārthiva! gamyatām||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 67
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 67
विमानमेतदारुह्य मा विलम्बस्व गम्यताम।।
vimānametadāruhya mā vilambasva gamyatām||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 68
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 68
त्राहीति चार्ताः क्रन्दन्ति मामतो न व्रजाम्यहम।।
trāhīti cārtāḥ krandanti māmato na vrajāmyaham||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 69
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 69
स्वर्गस्त्वयापि गन्तव्यो नृप! पुण्येन कर्मणा।।
svargastvayāpi gantavyo nṛpa! puṇyena karmaṇā||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 70
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 70
मम यावत प्रमाणन्तु शुभं तद्वक्तुमर्हथः।।
mama yāvat pramāṇantu śubhaṃ tadvaktumarhathaḥ||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 71
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 71
यथा वा वर्षता धारा गड्गायां सिकता यथा।।
yathā vā varṣatā dhārā gaḍgāyāṃ sikatā yathā||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 72
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 72
तथा तवापि पुण्यस्य संख्या नैवोपपद्यते।।
tathā tavāpi puṇyasya saṃkhyā naivopapadyate||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 73
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 73
तदेव शतसाहस्त्रं संख्यामुपगतं तव।।
tadeva śatasāhastraṃ saṃkhyāmupagataṃ tava||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 74
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 74
एते ऽपि पापं नरके क्षपयन्तु स्वकर्मजम।।
ete 'pi pāpaṃ narake kṣapayantu svakarmajam||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 75
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 75
यदि सत्सन्निधावेषामुकत्कर्षो नोपजायते।।
yadi satsannidhāveṣāmukatkarṣo nopajāyate||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 76
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 76
तेन मुच्यन्तु नरकात पापिनो यातनां गताः।।
tena mucyantu narakāt pāpino yātanāṃ gatāḥ||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 77
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 77
एतांश्च नरकात पश्य विमुक्तान पापकारिणः।।
etāṃśca narakāt paśya vimuktān pāpakāriṇaḥ||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 78
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 78
विमानञ्चाधिरोप्यैनं स्वर्लोकमनयद्धरिः।।
vimānañcādhiropyainaṃ svarlokamanayaddhariḥ||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 79
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 79
स्वकर्मफलनिर्दिष्टं ततो जात्यन्तरं गताः।।
svakarmaphalanirdiṣṭaṃ tato jātyantaraṃ gatāḥ||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 80
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 80
येन येन च पापेन यां यां योनिमुपैति वै।।
yena yena ca pāpena yāṃ yāṃ yonimupaiti vai||
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Conversation between the father and son (continued) - Verse 81
Markandeya Purana (GRETIL) · Chapter 15 · Verse 81
अतः परं महाभाग किमन्यत कथयामि ते।।
ataḥ paraṃ mahābhāga kimanyat kathayāmi te||
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