Shloka 81
इन्द्रद्युम्नोपाख्यानम्
Indradyumna Upākhyāna: On Kīrti, Smṛti, and Restoration
भर्तृणां वचने चैव न स्थास्यन्ति ततः स्त्रिय: । पुत्राश्न मातापितरौ हनिष्यन्ति युगक्षये,वे पतिकी अज्ञामें नहीं रहेंगी। युगान्तकालमें पुत्र माता-पिताकी हत्या करेंगे
bhartṝṇāṃ vacane caiva na sthāsyanti tataḥ striyaḥ | putrāś ca mātāpitarau haniṣyanti yugakṣaye ||
Markandeya said: “Thereafter, women will no longer abide by the words of their husbands; and at the dissolution of the age, sons will even slay their own mother and father.” The verse portrays the moral collapse of society in the final phase of an era, where foundational bonds—marriage and filial duty—are overturned.
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse warns that when dharma collapses, the most basic ethical restraints—marital fidelity to rightful guidance and reverence for parents—erode, leading to violence within the family itself. It functions as a moral diagnosis of yuga-ending degeneration.
Mārkaṇḍeya is describing signs of the terminal decline of an age (yugakṣaya). He lists extreme inversions of social order: wives no longer heeding husbands, and sons committing the ultimate adharma by killing their parents.