Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 22, Shloka 23
Adhyaya 22 — Kuvalayashva’s Death through Daitya-Deceit and Madalasa’s Self-Immolation
पुत्रावूचतुः इत्युक्त्वोत्सृज्य दत्त्वा भूमौ स जगाम यथागतम् ।
निपपात जनः सोऽथ शोकार्तो मूर्च्छयातुरः ॥
putrāv ūcatuḥ ity uktvotsṛjya dattvā bhūmau sa jagāma yathāgatam /
nipapāta janaḥ so 'tha śokārto mūrcchayā'turaḥ
ऐसा कहकर वे दोनों पुत्र उस हार को छोड़कर भूमि पर रख, जैसे आए थे वैसे ही चले गए। तब वे लोग शोक से आहत और मूर्छा से पीड़ित होकर गिर पड़े।
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FAQs
Even when wisdom is presented, the untrained mind initially reacts with overwhelming grief. The narrative realistically shows the gap between hearing renunciatory counsel and embodying it.
Didactic narrative (vaṃśānucarita-type exemplum), not a cosmological/manvantara unit.
The ascetic’s departure ‘as he came’ suggests the guru-like figure is not to be clung to; the teaching remains, but forms vanish. The swoon indicates prāṇa disturbance under intense rāga (attachment).