Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 35, Shloka 47
Adhyaya 35 — Madālasa’s Instruction on Purity, Impurity, and Corrective Rites (Śauca and Aśauca)
सपिण्डानां सपिण्डस्तु मृते 'न्यस्मिन्मृतो यदि ।
पूर्वाशौचसमाख्यातैः कार्यास्त्वत्र दिनैः क्रियाः ॥
sapiṇḍānāṃ sapiṇḍas tu mṛte 'nyasmin mṛto yadi | pūrvāśauca-samākhyātaiḥ kāryās tv atra dinaiḥ kriyāḥ ||
সপিণ্ড আত্মীয়দের মধ্যে পূর্বের আশৌচ চলাকালীন যদি আরেক সপিণ্ডের মৃত্যু হয়, তবে এখানে উল্লিখিত ক্রিয়াগুলি পূর্ব আশৌচে গণিত দিনের অনুসারেই সম্পাদনীয়।
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FAQs
The system prevents endless disruption: overlapping deaths are handled by reference to an existing impurity-cycle, maintaining ritual coherence and social functionality.
Ācāra/dharma instruction embedded in the purāṇa.
Aśauca is treated like a single ‘field condition’; additional events within it do not create a new field but are absorbed into the existing liminal interval.