Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 51, Shloka 121
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
द्वितीयस्तु गुणान् मैत्रीं लोकस्थामपकर्षति ।
इत्येते दुः सहाः सर्वे यक्ष्मणः सन्ततावथ ।
पापाचाराः समाख्याताः यैर्व्याप्तमखिलं जगत् ॥
dvitīyas tu guṇān maitrīṃ lokasthām apakarṣati /
ity ete duḥsahāḥ sarve yakṣmaṇaḥ santatāv atha /
pāpācārāḥ samākhyātā yair vyāptam akhilaṃ jagat
द्वितीयो गुणान् जनानां च मैत्रीं ह्रासयति; अतः सर्वेऽमी दुःसहाः यक्ष्मणः सन्ततिरिति कथ्यन्ते, दुष्टाचाराः इति चोच्यन्ते, यैर्जगत्सर्वं व्याप्तम्।
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FAQs
The deepest harm is not only bodily but social: when virtues and mutual trust decline, society becomes a field for pervasive suffering. The text treats 'pāpācāra' as contagious and world-pervading.
A didactic-etiological conclusion to a localized origin narrative (closest to pratisarga-style explanation of how conditions proliferate in the world).
Yakṣman as 'consumption' symbolizes the consuming nature of vice: it eats away guṇa and maitrī. The 'pervasion of the world' mirrors how tamas spreads when vigilance (śauca, sat-saṅga, satya-vāk) is lost.