Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 51, Shloka 90
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
तमः प्रच्छादकश्चान्यस्तत्स्वरूपं शृणुष्व मे ।
प्रदीपदैलसंसर्गदूषिते लङ्घिते खले ॥
tamaḥ pracchādakaś cānyas tat-svarūpaṃ śṛṇuṣva me / pradīpa-daila-saṃsarga-dūṣite laṅghite khale
एक अन्य ‘तमः-प्रच्छादक’ है; उसका स्वभाव मुझसे सुनो। जहाँ दीपक और तेल के स्पर्श से कोई वस्तु दूषित हो जाती है, और जहाँ लांघने/अतिक्रमण का नीच कर्म किया जाता है—वहीं वह प्रवृत्त होता है।
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FAQs
Impurity and boundary-violations invite ‘darkening’—loss of clarity and right judgment. The text links mundane negligence (defilement) with moral consequence.
Ācāra/niṣedha (conduct and prohibitions), outside pancalakṣaṇa.
Lamp (light) plus oil (fuel) symbolize knowledge sustained by practice; when ‘contact’ becomes defilement, illumination itself is corrupted, yielding tamas (obscuration).