Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 34, Shloka 104
Adhyaya 34 — Madālāsā’s Instruction on Sadācāra (Householder Conduct, Purity, and Daily Rites)
अङ्गुष्ठोत्तरतो रेखा पाणेर्या दक्षिणस्य तु । एतद् ब्राह्ममिति ख्यातं तीर्थमाचमनाय वै ॥
aṅguṣṭhottarato rekhā pāṇeryā dakṣiṇasya tu | etad brāhmamiti khyātaṃ tīrthamācamanāya vai ||
ডান হাতের তালুতে বৃদ্ধাঙ্গুলির ঠিক উপরে যে রেখা—তাই আচমনের উদ্দেশ্যে ‘ব্রাহ্ম-তীর্থ’ নামে প্রসিদ্ধ।
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FAQs
Purity practices are concretized: dharma is not vague piety but embodied discipline, specifying even the locus on the hand for correct performance.
Ācāra material; not pañcalakṣaṇa.
The hand becomes a ritual map: locating brāhma-tīrtha near the thumb suggests the primacy of agency/volition (thumb) guided by sacred order in acts of purification.