Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 34, Shloka 1
Adhyaya 34 — Madālāsā’s Instruction on Sadācāra (Householder Conduct, Purity, and Daily Rites)
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे काम्यश्राद्धफलाकथनं नाम त्रयस्त्रिंशोऽध्यायः । चतुस्त्रिंशोऽध्यायः । मदालसोवाच एवम् पुत्र ! गृहस्थेन देवताः पितरस्तथा । संपूज्या हव्यकव्याभ्यामन्नेनातिथिबान्धवाः ॥
iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe kāmyaśrāddhaphalakathanaṃ nāma trayastriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ | catuṣtriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ | madālasovāca evam putra | gṛhasthena devatāḥ pitaras tathā | saṃpūjyā havyakavyābhyām annenātithibāndhavāḥ ||
Thus ends the thirty-third chapter called “The account of the fruits of desire-motivated śrāddha.” Now begins the thirty-fourth chapter. Madālasa said: “Therefore, my son: a householder should duly honor the deities and likewise the ancestors with offerings meant for the gods (havis) and for the fathers (kavya); and with food he should honor guests and kinsmen.”
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FAQs
Householder life is sanctified by reciprocity: one sustains gods (through havis), ancestors (through kavya), and society (through feeding guests/kin). Dharma is portrayed as relational maintenance, not private piety alone.
Ācāra/Dharma instruction; not a pancalakṣaṇa segment proper, but a normative layer commonly embedded in Purāṇic discourse.
Havya and kavya represent two ‘streams’ of obligation—upward (to devas) and backward (to pitṛs). Balancing both is a symbolic balancing of future aspiration and ancestral continuity.