Shloka 86
जनं परिजन चापि युगान्ते पर्युपस्थिते । युगान्तकाल उपस्थित होनेपर बिजलीकी कड़कके समान कड़वी बोली बोलनेवाले कौवे, हाथी, शकुन, पशु और पक्षी आदि बड़ी कठोर वाणी बोलेंगे। उस समयके मनुष्य अपने मित्रों, सम्बन्धियों, सेवकों तथा कुट॒म्बीजनोंको भी अकारण त्याग देंगे || ८४-८५३ || अथ देशान् दिशश्वापि पत्तनानि पुराणि च,प्रायः लोग स्वदेश छोड़कर दूसरे देशों, दिशाओं, नगरों और गाँवोंका आश्रय लेंगे और हा तात! हा पुत्र! इत्यादि रूपसे अत्यन्त दुःखद वाणीमें एक-दूसरेको पुकारते हुए इस पृथ्वीपर विचरेंगे। युगान्तकालमें संसारकी यही दशा होगी। उस समय एक ही साथ समस्त लोकोंका भयंकर संहार होगा
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca |
janaṁ parijanaṁ cāpi yugānte paryupasthite |
atha deśān diśaś cāpi pattanāni purāṇi ca |
Mārkaṇḍeya said: “When the end of the age draws near, people—even their own households and dependents—will be abandoned. At that time harsh, bitter cries, like the crack of lightning, will be heard among creatures: crows, elephants, birds of omen, beasts, and other birds will utter dreadful sounds. Then men, without cause, will cast off friends, relatives, servants, and family members. Thereafter, leaving their native lands, they will seek refuge in other regions and directions, in towns and villages, wandering over the earth and calling to one another in anguished voices—‘O father!’ ‘O son!’ Such will be the condition of the world at the age’s end, when a terrible destruction of all beings arises at once.”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The passage warns that when dharma collapses at the end of an age, social bonds and basic human duties—loyalty to family, compassion, and responsibility—disintegrate. It frames ethical decay as both a symptom and a cause of wider cosmic and societal catastrophe.
Mārkaṇḍeya describes apocalyptic portents of yugānta: ominous cries among animals and birds, people abandoning even close relations, mass displacement from homelands, and anguished wandering—culminating in a simultaneous, terrifying destruction of the worlds.