Markandeya Purana 51.36 — Adhyaya 51, Shloka 36
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
रागं कुसुम्भकादीनां कार्पासात् सूत्रमेव च ।
सा स्वयंहारिका नाम हरत्यविरतं द्विज ॥
rāgaṃ kusumbhakādīnāṃ kārpāsāt sūtram eva ca | sā svayaṃhārikā nāma haraty avirataṃ dvija ||
सा कुसुम्भादीनां रञ्जनानि हरति, कार्पासात् सूत्रमपि। सा ‘स्वयṃहारिका’ इति ख्याता, अनवरतं चोरयति, हे द्विज।
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FAQs
Household prosperity includes productive crafts (textiles, dyes); the warning encourages safeguarding resources and maintaining order in domestic production and storage.
Dharma/ācāra; not pancalakṣaṇa.
Thread and dye can symbolize continuity and identity; their ‘loss’ mythically encodes fraying of stability and social order when protective discipline is absent.
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