Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 43, Shloka 24
Adhyaya 43 — Portents of Death (Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇas) and the Yogin’s Response; Alarka Renounces Kingship
शक्रायुधं चार्धरात्रे दिवा ग्रहगणं तथा ।
दृष्ट्वा मन्येत संक्षीणमात्मजीवितमात्मवित् ॥
śakrāyudhaṃ cārdharātre divā grahagaṇantathā / dṛṣṭvā manyeta saṃkṣīṇamātmajīvitamātmavit
यदि कोई मध्यरात्रि में इन्द्र का आयुध (इन्द्रधनुष) देखे, या दिन में ग्रहों के समूह को देखे, तो बुद्धिमान समझे कि उसका अपना जीवन क्षीण हो रहा है।
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FAQs
When the perceived order of nature seems inverted, one should read it as a call to inner order—truthfulness, restraint, and spiritual preparation.
Ancillary material; it uses cosmic imagery but is not itself sarga/pratisarga/manvantara/vaṃśa/vaṃśānucarita.
‘Improper-time’ celestial vision symbolizes the loosening of normal sensory-world alignment as prāṇa withdraws; the macrocosm’s perceived inversion mirrors the microcosmic unbinding of the jīva.