Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 51, Shloka 88
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
धाताविधात्रोश्च बलिर्यत्र काले न दीयते ।
भुञ्जतां पिबतां वापि सङ्गिभिर्जलविप्रुषैः ॥
dhātā-vidhātroś ca balir yatra kāle na dīyate / bhuñjatāṃ pibatāṃ vāpi saṅgibhir jala-vipruṣaiḥ
जहाँ उचित समय पर धाता और विधाता को बलि-नैवेद्य नहीं दिया जाता, और जहाँ साथ खाने-पीने वालों के जल-छींटों से भोजन-पान में विघ्न पड़ता है—वहीं ऐसे हानिकर प्रभाव उत्पन्न होते हैं।
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FAQs
Ritual gratitude and order (timely bali) and ordinary discipline (cleanliness during meals) are treated as safeguards; neglect in small duties is linked to larger moral/psychic disorder.
Ācāra (conduct/ritual) material; not one of the five defining cosmological topics.
Dhātā/Vidhātā represent cosmic ordering; failing to ‘offer’ acknowledges a break with order. Water-splashes during eating symbolize distraction and contamination of intake—what one ‘takes in’ shapes mind and fate.