Shloka 53
Adhyaya 69 — The King’s Neglect of His Wife and the Restoration of Dharma
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे स्वारोचिषे मन्वन्तरे पञ्चषष्टितमोऽध्यायः ।
यथाहं समतीतञ्च वर्तमानञ्च सर्वतः ॥
iti śrī-mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇe svārociṣe manvantare pañca-ṣaṣṭitamo 'dhyāyaḥ | yathāhaṃ samatītaṃ ca vartamānaṃ ca sarvataḥ ||
ഇങ്ങനെ ശ്രീമാർകണ്ഡേയപുരാണത്തിലെ സ്വാരോചിഷ മന്വന്തരത്തിൽ അറുപത്തിയഞ്ചാം അധ്യായം സമാപ്തമായി. കൂടാതെ—“ഞാൻ എല്ലായിടത്തും ഭൂതവും വർത്തമാനവും അറിയുന്നതുപോലെ…”
FAQs
The colophon anchors the teaching within a manvantara framework, while the ensuing line points to a seer’s widened cognition—used in Purāṇas to validate moral instruction by situating it within a larger vision of time and consequence.
Explicitly Manvantara: it labels the Svārociṣa manvantara section and marks a chapter boundary, a common Purāṇic structuring device.
Knowing past and present ‘everywhere’ suggests a standpoint beyond ordinary temporality—ṛṣi-dṛṣṭi—implying that dharma is not arbitrary but seen against the full arc of karmic unfolding.