Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 10, Shloka 78
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
दंष्ट्राकरालवदनं भ्रकुटीदरुणाकृतिम् ।
विरूपैर्भोषणैर्वक्त्रैर्वृतं व्याधिशतैः प्रभुम् ॥
daṃṣṭrākarālavadanaṃ bhrakuṭīdāruṇākṛtim /
virūpairbhoṣaṇairvaktrairvṛtaṃ vyādhiśataiḥ prabhum
वह उस प्रभु को देखता है—उभरे हुए दाँतों से मुख भयानक बना हुआ, भयंकर भृकुटि चढ़ी हुई; विकृत, गर्जन करते मुखों से घिरा हुआ, और सैकड़ों रोगों से चारों ओर से वेष्टित।
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FAQs
The terrifying imagery is pedagogical: it discourages adharma by making consequences emotionally vivid, linking moral failure with suffering and affliction.
Eschatological/dharma instruction; not pañcalakṣaṇa.
The ‘hundreds of diseases’ can be read as embodied karmic residues—afflictions (kleśa-like forces) that surround the jīva when it confronts the moral truth of its actions.