Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 51, Shloka 118
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
निर्बोजत्वं नरो याति नारी वा शौचवर्जिता ।
पैशुन्याभिरतं लोलमसज्जननिषेवणम् ॥
nirbojatvaṃ naro yāti nārī vā śaucavarjitā /
paiśunyābhirataṃ lolam asajjananiṣevaṇam
जो पुरुष या स्त्री शौच से रहित है, वह वीर्य-हानि को प्राप्त होता है; निंदा में रत, चंचल और दुष्टों की संगति करने वाला भी वैसा ही प्रभावित होता है।
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FAQs
Purity is not only bodily but also social and verbal: slander and bad company are treated as contaminations that drain ojas (vital vigor) and destabilize life.
Didactic dharma material embedded in purāṇic narration (ancillary to pratisarga-like accounts of how evils spread).
Speech (vāk) is a carrier of śakti; when degraded into paiśunya, it becomes a channel for depletion rather than nourishment—hence 'loss of boja/ojas' as an inner consequence.