Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 50, Shloka 67
Adhyaya 50 — Mind-Born Progeny, Svayambhuva Manu’s Lineage, and Brahmā’s Ordinance to Duḥsaha (Alakṣmī’s Retinue)
वयः सम्बन्धयोग्यानि शयनान्यशनानि च ।
यत्र गेहे त्वया यक्ष तद्वर्ज्यं वचनान्मम ॥
vayaḥ sambandhayogyāni śayanāny aśanāni ca | yatra gehe tvayā yakṣa tad varjyaṃ vacanān mama ||
हे यक्ष! मेरे वचन से—जिस घर में संबंध, शय्या और भोजन आयु तथा उचित संबंध के अनुसार मर्यादित/उचित रखे जाते हैं—उस घर से दूर रहो।
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FAQs
Order in intimate life (relationships and sleeping arrangements) and in consumption (food) is treated as dharmic infrastructure. Where propriety is maintained, the household is portrayed as safeguarded.
Practical dharma counsel; not a core pancalakṣaṇa topic.
Age-appropriate order symbolizes the correct flow of life-stages (āśrama logic). When that flow is respected, the subtle ‘house-field’ is coherent; incoherence is what invites disturbance.