Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 34, Shloka 20
Adhyaya 34 — Madālāsā’s Instruction on Sadācāra (Householder Conduct, Purity, and Daily Rites)
सायं प्रापतस्तथा होमं कुर्वोत नियतात्मवान् ।
नोदयास्तमने बिम्बमुदीक्षेत विवस्वतः ॥
sāyaṃ prāpatastathā homaṃ kurvota niyatātmavān |
nodayāstamane bimbamudīkṣeta vivasvataḥ ||
Having returned in the evening, a self-restrained person should perform the homa. He should not gaze at the disk of the sun at sunrise or at sunset.
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FAQs
Daily fire-offering and restraint of the senses are paired disciplines: ritual steadies life, while sense-control prevents dissipation.
Ācāra-dharma instruction; outside pancalakṣaṇa narrative categories.
Sunrise/sunset are ‘threshold’ moments; the injunction suggests inward recollection rather than outward fixation—turning vision into contemplation.