Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 88, Shloka 43
Adhyaya 88 — The Manifestation of the Matrikas and the Slaying of Raktabija
यावन्तः पतितास्तस्य शरीराद्रक्तबिन्दवः ।
तावन्तः पुरुषा जातास्तद्वीर्यबलविक्रमाः ॥
yāvantaḥ patitās tasya śarīrād raktabindavaḥ / tāvantaḥ puruṣā jātās tadvīryabalavikramāḥ
उसके शरीर से जितनी रक्त-बूँदें गिरतीं, उतने ही व्यक्ति उत्पन्न हो जाते—उसके ही तेज, बल और शौर्य से युक्त।
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FAQs
The verse teaches proportional causality: each ‘drop’ of harmful action can yield an equivalent consequence; vigilance at small beginnings prevents large outcomes.
Not a cosmological/genealogical marker; it functions as a didactic narrative mechanism within the Devī cycle.
It encodes the idea that attention-energy (vīrya) invested in lower tendencies reproduces those tendencies; spiritual practice must prevent ‘leakage’ into proliferation.