Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 10, Shloka 79
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
दण्डासक्तं महाबाहुं पाशहस्तं सुभैरवम् ।
तन्निर्दिष्टां ततो याति गतिं जन्तुः शुभाशुभाम् ॥
daṇḍāsaktaṃ mahābāhuṃ pāśahastaṃ subhairavam /
tannirdiṣṭāṃ tato yāti gatiṃ jantuḥ śubhāśubhām
उस महाबाहु, अत्यन्त भयानक—दण्ड धारण करने वाले और पाश हाथ में लिए हुए—को देखकर वह जीव उसके द्वारा नियत की गई गति को प्राप्त होता है, चाहे वह शुभ हो या अशुभ।
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FAQs
Destiny after death is portrayed as adjudicated according to deeds: śubha and aśubha karmas mature into corresponding paths, reinforcing ethical responsibility.
Dharma/karma-fruit teaching; not a pañcalakṣaṇa unit.
The staff and noose symbolize constraint and consequence: the jīva is ‘bound’ by its own actions and ‘directed’ by the impersonal order that Yama represents.