Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 45, Shloka 1
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे पितापुत्रसंवादे जडोपाख्यानं नाम चतुश्चत्वारिंशोऽध्यायः ।
जैमिनिरुवाच सम्यगेतनमाख्यातं भवद्भिर्द्विजसत्तमाः ।
प्रवृत्तं च निवृत्तं च द्विविधं कर्म वैदिकम् ॥
iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe pitāputra-saṃvāde jaḍopākhyānaṃ nāma catuścatvāriṃśo 'dhyāyaḥ /
jaiminir uvāca samyag etan mamākhyātaṃ bhavadbhir dvija-sattamāḥ /
pravṛttaṃ ca nivṛttaṃ ca dvi-vidhaṃ karma vaidikam
ဤသို့ဖြင့် သီရိ မာရ္ကဏ္ဍေယ ပုရာဏ၌ အဖနှင့် သား၏ ဆွေးနွေးပွဲအတွင်း «ဇဋာ ဖြစ်ရပ်» ဟု ခေါ်သော လေးဆယ့်လေးမြောက် အခန်းသည် အဆုံးသတ်၏။ ဇိုင်မိနီက ဆိုသည်– «အို နှစ်ကြိမ်မွေး အထက်မြတ်သူ၊ သင်သည် ငါ့အား မှန်ကန်စွာ ရှင်းလင်းပေးခဲ့၏။ ဝေဒက ကမ္မသည် နှစ်မျိုးရှိသည်– ပါဝတ္တိ (pravṛtti) ဟူသော လုပ်ဆောင်ခြင်း၏ လမ်းနှင့် နိဝတ္တိ (nivṛtti) ဟူသော ဆုတ်ခွာခြင်း၏ လမ်း»။
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FAQs
The Purāṇa harmonizes two legitimate Vedic orientations: pravṛtti (duty, society, ritual, ethical action) and nivṛtti (renunciation, inner freedom). The earlier story illustrates nivṛtti without denigrating dharma; here Jaimini explicitly recognizes the twofold framework.
This is classificatory dharma teaching rather than cosmology/genealogy. It functions as a hermeneutic key for reading Vedic prescriptions—some aim at ordered worldly life (pravṛtti), others at liberation (nivṛtti).
Pravṛtti and nivṛtti can be read as outward and inward yajña: the former offers actions into social order; the latter offers the sense of doership into Brahman. Both are ‘vaidika’ when aligned with truth and discipline.