Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 51, Shloka 11
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
तिष्ठत्यन्यकुमारस्तु तथास्त्त्वित्यसकृद्ब्रुवन् ।
शुभाशुभे नृणां युङ्क्ते तथोक्तिस्तच्च नान्यथा ॥
tiṣṭhaty anyakumārastu tathāsttv ity asakṛd bruvan / śubhāśubhe nṛṇāṃ yuṅkte tathoktis tacca nānyathā
Another Kumāra remains present, repeatedly uttering “tathāstu” (“so be it”). He assigns to people auspicious and inauspicious results—this is Tathokti, and it is indeed so.
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FAQs
Speech is treated as causally potent: careless repetition and verbal assent can ‘bind’ outcomes; hence dharma emphasizes disciplined, truthful, and well-timed utterance.
A dharma/ācāra teaching about vāc and its effects, framed through mythic personification; not a pañcalakṣaṇa narrative.
‘Tathāstu’ symbolizes the sealing power of intention expressed as sound; the kumāra personifies the subtle mechanism by which words crystallize karma into experienced ‘śubha/āśubha’.