Shloka 26
Adhyaya 72 — The Reconciliation Rite, Sarasvati Sacrifice, and the Birth of Uttama Manu (Auttama Manvantara Prelude)
मार्कण्डेय उवाच इष्टिं सारस्वतीं चक्रे तदर्थं स द्विजोत्तमः ।
सारस्वतानि सूक्तानि जजाप च समाहितः ॥
mārkaṇḍeya uvāca iṣṭiṃ sārasvatīṃ cakre tadarthaṃ sa dvijottamaḥ | sārasvatāni sūktāni jajāpa ca samāhitaḥ ||
तदर्थं स द्विजश्रेष्ठः सरस्वती-इष्टिं चकार, एकाग्रचित्तः सरस्वती-स्तोत्राणि जजाप च।
FAQs
Right speech is restored by disciplined sacred speech: the healer employs mantra with mental steadiness, showing that intention and method must align.
Ācāra/ritual practice embedded in narrative; outside the five-fold cosmological-genealogical markers.
Reciting Sarasvatī-sūktas is a ‘speech curing speech’ motif: vāg becomes both instrument and goal, reflecting the self-luminous nature of śabda.