Shloka 58

Adhyāya 188: Mārkaṇḍeya’s Account of Yuga-Decline and the Restoration Motif

Kali-yuga to Kalki

Devanagari script

आख्यानमिदमाख्यातं सर्वपापहरं मया । य इदं शृणुयान्नित्यं मनोश्वरितमादित: । स सुखी सर्वपूर्णार्थ: सर्वलोकमियान्नर:,मेरे द्वारा वर्णित यह उपाख्यान सब पापोंको नष्ट करनेवाला है। जो मनुष्य प्रतिदिन प्रारम्भसे ही मनुके इस चरित्रको सुनता है, वह सुखी हो सम्पूर्ण मनोरथोंको पा लेता और सब लोकोंमें जा सकता है

Transliteration

ākhyānam idam ākhyātaṃ sarvapāpaharaṃ mayā | ya idaṃ śṛṇuyān nityaṃ manīśvaritam āditaḥ | sa sukhī sarvapūrṇārthaḥ sarvalokam iyān naraḥ ||

Translation

マールカンデーヤは言った。「我はこの物語を語った。これは一切の罪を滅する。これを日々、初めより聴く者——マヌの高貴なる行いの記録を——その人は幸福となり、あらゆる目的を成就し、諸世界への到達を得る。」

Word by Word

• {'ākhyānam': 'narrative, tale, sacred story', 'idam': 'this', 'ākhyātam': 'told, narrated', 'sarva-pāpa-haram': 'remover of all sin/evil consequences', 'mayā': 'by me', 'yaḥ': 'who(ever)', 'śṛṇuyāt': 'should hear, listens', 'nityam': 'daily, regularly', 'āditaḥ': 'from the beginning', 'manu-īśvaritam': 'Manu’s conduct/deeds

• the account of Manu’s exemplary life', 'saḥ': 'he', 'sukhī': 'happy, flourishing', 'sarva-pūrṇa-arthaḥ': 'one whose aims are fully accomplished

• fully successful', 'sarva-lokam': 'all worlds/realms', 'iyāt': 'would go, would attain', 'naraḥ': 'man, person'}

Speaker

मार्कण्डेय उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Mārkaṇḍeya
• Manu

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Regular listening to a dharmic narrative—especially one exemplifying Manu’s righteous conduct—is presented as spiritually purifying (destroying sin) and as a means to well-being and the fulfillment of life’s aims.

What is happening in the narrative?

This verse functions as a concluding phalaśruti: Mārkaṇḍeya closes his narration by declaring the merit gained from hearing the story daily from the start—happiness, success in aims, and attainment of higher realms.