Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 51, Shloka 64
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
क्रौष्टुके परिवर्तः स्यात् गर्भस्य अन्योदरात् ततः ।
न वृक्षं चैव नैवाद्रिं न प्राकारं महोदधिम् ॥
krauṣṭuke parivartaḥ syāt garbhasyānyodarāt tataḥ | na vṛkṣaṃ caiva naivādriṃ na prākāraṃ mahodadhim ||
परिवर्त फिर क्रौष्टुक के गर्भ में जन्म लेता। उसके बाद उसका न वृक्ष से, न पर्वत से, न प्राचीर से, न महोदधि से कोई संबंध रहता।
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FAQs
The narrative constrains where and how a harmful force can manifest, implying that ritual/ethical order limits the range of disruptive influences. Rebirth into a specific ‘type’ (krauṣṭuka) is a moral taxonomy: conduct determines embodiment.
Falls under Vaṃśānucarita / didactic narrative rather than cosmic Sarga. It uses rebirth-description as a dharmic exemplum.
The denial of ‘tree/mountain/wall/ocean’ can be read as withdrawing supports and hiding-places: when karmic conditions change, previous shelters for negativity no longer hold.