Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 34, Shloka 26
Adhyaya 34 — Madālāsā’s Instruction on Sadācāra (Householder Conduct, Purity, and Daily Rites)
पितृदेवमनुष्याणां भूतानाञ्च तथाऽर्च्चनम् ।
कृत्वा विभवतः पश्चाद् गृहस्थो भोक्तुमर्हति ॥
pitṛdevamanuṣyāṇāṃ bhūtānāñca tathārccanam |
kṛtvā vibhavataḥ paścād gṛhastho bhoktumarhati ||
पितरों, देवताओं, मनुष्यों तथा भूत-प्राणियों आदि के लिए अपनी सामर्थ्य के अनुसार विधिपूर्वक पूजन करके, तब गृहस्थ भोजन करे।
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FAQs
Food is not merely personal enjoyment; the householder must first acknowledge debts to ancestors, gods, guests/society, and other beings—then eating becomes righteous.
Ācāra-dharma; not pancalakṣaṇa.
The verse encodes an ‘interconnected cosmos’ ethic: nourishment is sanctified by offering—transforming consumption into yajña.