Shloka 4
Adhyaya 64 — Creation Narrative
मार्कण्डेय उवाच । एवमस्त्विति तेनोक्ते धर्मज्ञेन स्वरोचिषा । द्वितीया तु तदा कन्या इदं वचनमब्रवीत् ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca | evam astv iti tenokte dharmajñena svarociṣā | dvitīyā tu tadā kanyā idaṃ vacanam abravīt ||
Markandeya berkata: ketika Svarociṣa yang mengetahui dharma berkata, “Demikianlah,” maka gadis kedua mengucapkan kata-kata ini.
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Speech and consent are framed through dharma: the narrative marks Svarociṣa as ‘dharmajña’ and then gives voice to the maiden, indicating that personal histories and moral causality are to be heard in full before judgment.
Primarily Vamśānucarita (accounts of lineages/persons) within a broader Purāṇic narrative frame; not directly sarga/pratisarga, but embedded in didactic storytelling.
The handover from a dharma-knower’s assent to a maiden’s self-narration symbolically shifts authority from external sanction to inner testimony—often a Purāṇic device to reveal karma and destiny through lived experience.