Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 51, Shloka 89
Adhyaya 51 — Yaksha Injunctions: Graha-Children and Female Spirits Causing Domestic and Ritual Disruptions
नवनारीषु संक्रान्तिस्तासामाश्वभिजायते ।
विरोधिन्यास्त्रयः पुत्राश्चोदको ग्राहकस्तथा ॥
nava-nārīṣu saṃkrāntis tāsām āśv abhijāyate / virodhinyās trayaḥ putrāś codako grāhakas tathā
तेषां नवसु स्त्रीषु शीघ्रमेव संक्रान्तिर्भवति। विरोधिन्याः त्रयः पुत्रा जायन्ते—चोदकश्च ग्राहकश्च (अन्यश्च)।
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FAQs
Conflict (virodha) generates forces that incite and seize—i.e., agitation leads to compulsion and grasping. The ‘spread’ imagery warns how quickly disruptive patterns propagate within social/domestic networks.
Didactic allegory supporting dharma; not a vaṃśa/manvantara genealogy of kings but a moral-personification genealogy.
‘Nine women’ can be read as multiple channels of expression or contexts of manifestation; the sons ‘inciter’ and ‘seizer’ describe stages: stimulation → attachment/appropriation.
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