Narada Purana — Purva Bhaga, Shloka 6
Mārkaṇḍeya-varṇanam
The Description of Mārkaṇḍeya
काले दधार सा गर्भं हरितेजॐशसंभवम् । सुषुवे दशमासान्ते पुत्रं तेजस्विनं परम् ॥ ६ ॥
kāle dadhāra sā garbhaṃ haritejaoṃśasaṃbhavam | suṣuve daśamāsānte putraṃ tejasvinaṃ param || 6 ||
In due course she conceived a child born of a portion of Hari’s radiance; and at the end of ten months she gave birth to a supremely brilliant son.
Narada (narrating to the Sanatkumara brothers)
Vrata: none
Primary Rasa: adbhuta
Secondary Rasa: bhakti
FAQs
It frames the child’s birth as divinely sourced—arising from Hari’s tejas—emphasizing that true greatness and spiritual authority originate in Vishnu’s power rather than merely human lineage.
By attributing the son’s excellence to a share of Hari’s radiance, the verse directs attention to Hari as the ultimate refuge and source—an implicit bhakti teaching that all auspiciousness flows from devotion to Vishnu.
The verse reflects traditional dharmic understanding of human gestation (“ten months”), aligning with classical time-reckoning used in Jyotiṣa-style calendrical thinking, though no explicit Vedanga procedure is taught in this line.