Shloka 1
Adhyaya 25 — Madālāsā’s Return, Royal Succession, and the First Teaching to Vikrānta
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे मदालसाप्राप्तिर्नाम चतुर्विंशोऽध्यायः पञ्चविंशोऽध्यायः ।
जड उवाच आगम्य स्वपुरं सोऽथ पित्रोः सर्वमशेषतः ।
कथयामास तन्वङ्गी यथा प्राप्ता पुनर्मृता ॥
iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe madālasāprāptir nāma caturviśo ’dhyāyaḥ pañcaviṃśo ’dhyāyaḥ |
jaḍa uvāca āgamya svapuraṃ so ’tha pitroḥ sarvam aśeṣataḥ |
kathayāmāsa tanvaṅgī yathā prāptā punar mṛtā ||
শ্রীমার্কণ্ডেয় পুরাণে ‘মদালসা-প্রাপ্তি’ নামক চতুর্বিংশ অধ্যায় সমাপ্ত; অতঃপর পঞ্চবিংশ অধ্যায়। জড় বলিল—নিজ নগরে আসিয়া সে পিতা-মাতাকে সবিস্তারে বলিল, কীভাবে সেই সুকোমলাঙ্গী নারী মৃত্যুবরণ করিয়াও পুনরায় প্রাপ্ত হইল।
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FAQs
Purāṇic stories often end by reintegrating extraordinary events into family and social order—truth is confirmed through transparent reporting and communal acknowledgment.
Narrative (vaṃśānucarita/ākhyāna-adjacent) rather than direct sarga/pratisarga/manvantara; it belongs to the Purāṇa’s instructive storytelling layer.
‘Recovery of Madālasā’ can be read as the retrieval of awakened insight (symbolized as the feminine principle) after it seemed ‘lost’ to death-like ignorance.