Adhyaya 17 — The Birth of Atri’s Three Sons: Soma, Dattatreya, and Durvasa
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे पितापुत्रसंवादे अनसूयावरप्राप्तिर्नाम षोडशोऽध्यायः ।
सप्तदशोऽध्यायः ।
पुत्र उवाच ततो काले बहुतिथे द्वितीयो ब्रह्मणः सुतः ।
स्वभार्यां भगवानत्रिरनसूयामपश्यत ॥
iti śrī-mārkaṇḍeya-purāṇe pitā-putra-saṃvāde anasūyā-vara-prāptir nāma ṣoḍaśo 'dhyāyaḥ | saptadaśo 'dhyāyaḥ | putra uvāca tato kāle bahu-tithe dvitīyo brahmaṇaḥ sutaḥ | sva-bhāryāṃ bhagavān atrir anasūyām apaśyata ||
अशा प्रकारे श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणातील पितृ-पुत्र संवादात ‘अनसूयेचा वरप्राप्ती’ नावाचा सोळावा अध्याय समाप्त झाला. आता सतरावा अध्याय। पुत्र म्हणाला—काही काळ गेल्यावर, ब्रह्माचा द्वितीयज पूज्य अत्री यांनी आपल्या पत्नी अनसूयेचे दर्शन घेतले।
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The transition re-centers the narrative on the dharmic household of Atri and Anasūyā, signaling that spiritual power and divine interaction arise within lived life, not only in renunciation.
This is chiefly a grantha-saṃdhi (textual seam) plus vaṃśa-related framing (Atri as Brahmā’s son), but not a formal vaṃśa catalog here.
Colophons function like ritual closures: they ‘seal’ the merit of the episode. The reappearance of Atri indicates the return of consciousness from divine vision to embodied relational life, where the boon will manifest.