Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 58, Shloka 3
Adhyaya 58 — The Kurma-Form of Narayana: Mapping Bharata through Nakshatras, Regions, and Planetary Afflictions
कथं स संस्थितो देवः कूर्मरूपी जनार्दनः ।
शुभाशुभं मनुष्याणां व्यज्यते च ततः कथम् ।
यथामुखं यथापादन्तस्य तद्ब्रूह्यशेषतः ॥
kathaṃ sa saṃsthito devaḥ kūrmarūpī janārdanaḥ | śubhāśubhaṃ manuṣyāṇāṃ vyajyate ca tataḥ katham | yathāmukhaṃ yathāpādāntasya tad brūhyaśeṣataḥ ||
সেই ভগৱান জনাৰ্দন কূৰ্মৰূপে কেনেকৈ প্ৰতিষ্ঠিত হৈ অৱস্থিত? আৰু তাৰ পৰা মানুহৰ শুভ-অশুভ ফল কেনেকৈ সূচিত হয়? তেওঁৰ মুখৰ দিশ অনুসাৰে আৰু পদৰ বিস্তাৰ অনুসাৰে সকলো সম্পূৰ্ণকৈ ব্যাখ্যা কৰা।
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FAQs
Human welfare is portrayed as intertwined with cosmic order: geography, celestial markers (nakṣatras), and divine orientation are treated as meaningful signs. The ethical implication is attentiveness to ṛta/dharma—living in harmony with the larger order that the Purāṇa frames as divinely structured.
Primarily within Sthiti (ordered arrangement/maintenance) and Vaṃśānucarita-style descriptive passages; it is a cosmographic mapping rather than creation (sarga) or dissolution (pratisarga).
The tortoise-form functions as a stabilizing cosmic support (dhāraṇa). ‘Face’ and ‘feet’ suggest orientation and reach—symbolically, how consciousness (mukha) and action/support (pāda) structure the field where karmic outcomes (śubha/aśubha) ripen.