Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 72, Shloka 26
Adhyaya 72 — The Reconciliation Rite, Sarasvati Sacrifice, and the Birth of Uttama Manu (Auttama Manvantara Prelude)
मार्कण्डेय उवाच इष्टिं सारस्वतीं चक्रे तदर्थं स द्विजोत्तमः ।
सारस्वतानि सूक्तानि जजाप च समाहितः ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca iṣṭiṃ sārasvatīṃ cakre tadarthaṃ sa dvijottamaḥ | sārasvatāni sūktāni jajāpa ca samāhitaḥ ||
সেই উদ্দেশ্যে সেই দ্বিজশ্ৰেষ্ঠে সৰস্বতী-ইষ্টি সম্পন্ন কৰিলে আৰু একাগ্ৰচিত্তে সৰস্বতী-স্তোত্ৰসমূহ জপ কৰিলে।
FAQs
Right speech is restored by disciplined sacred speech: the healer employs mantra with mental steadiness, showing that intention and method must align.
Ācāra/ritual practice embedded in narrative; outside the five-fold cosmological-genealogical markers.
Reciting Sarasvatī-sūktas is a ‘speech curing speech’ motif: vāg becomes both instrument and goal, reflecting the self-luminous nature of śabda.