Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 29, Shloka 24
Adhyaya 29 — Alarka’s Inquiry and Madalasa’s Teaching on Householder Dharma (Gārhasthya), Vaiśvadeva, and Atithi Hospitality
वैश्वदेवं हि नामैतत् सायं प्रातरुदाहृतम् ।
आचम्य च ततः कुर्यात् प्राज्ञो द्वारावलोकनम् ॥
vaiśvadevaṃ hi nāmaitat sāyaṃ prātar udāhṛtam / ācamya ca tataḥ kuryāt prājño dvārāvalokanam
This is indeed called the Vaiśvadeva rite, taught as to be performed in the evening and in the morning. After sipping water in ācāmana, the wise person should then look toward the doorway, to see whether a guest has arrived.
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FAQs
Worship and hospitality are linked: after offering to the divine, one immediately turns to the human/divine guest at the threshold—making the home a site of both devotion and service.
Ācāra/Dharma passage; it supports the Purāṇic social-religious program rather than cosmological enumeration.
The doorway is the meeting point of worlds; ‘dvārāvalokana’ symbolizes readiness to receive dharma in embodied form (the guest), not merely as an abstract rite.