Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 25, Shloka 1
Adhyaya 25 — Madālāsā’s Return, Royal Succession, and the First Teaching to Vikrānta
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे मदालसाप्राप्तिर्नाम चतुर्विंशोऽध्यायः पञ्चविंशोऽध्यायः ।
जड उवाच आगम्य स्वपुरं सोऽथ पित्रोः सर्वमशेषतः ।
कथयामास तन्वङ्गी यथा प्राप्ता पुनर्मृता ॥
iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe madālasāprāptir nāma caturviśo ’dhyāyaḥ pañcaviṃśo ’dhyāyaḥ |
jaḍa uvāca āgamya svapuraṃ so ’tha pitroḥ sarvam aśeṣataḥ |
kathayāmāsa tanvaṅgī yathā prāptā punar mṛtā ||
श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराण में ‘मदालसा-प्राप्ति’ नामक चौबीसवाँ अध्याय समाप्त; अब पच्चीसवाँ आरम्भ। जड़ ने कहा—अपनी नगरी में आकर उसने माता-पिता से सब कुछ विस्तार से कहा कि वह सुकुमारांगी स्त्री कैसे मरी हुई होकर भी फिर प्राप्त हुई।
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FAQs
Purāṇic stories often end by reintegrating extraordinary events into family and social order—truth is confirmed through transparent reporting and communal acknowledgment.
Narrative (vaṃśānucarita/ākhyāna-adjacent) rather than direct sarga/pratisarga/manvantara; it belongs to the Purāṇa’s instructive storytelling layer.
‘Recovery of Madālasā’ can be read as the retrieval of awakened insight (symbolized as the feminine principle) after it seemed ‘lost’ to death-like ignorance.