Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 10, Shloka 55
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
अवारिदायिनो दाहं क्षुधाञ्चानन्नदायिनः ।
प्राप्नुवन्ति नराः काले तस्मिन् मृत्यावुपस्थिते ॥
avāridāyino dāhaṃ kṣudhāṃ cānannadāyinaḥ / prāpnuvanti narāḥ kāle tasmin mṛtyāv upasthite
Ang hindi nagkaloob ng tubig ay magdurusa sa nakapapasong uhaw, at ang hindi nagkaloob ng pagkain ay magdurusa sa gutom, sa panahong iyon—kapag dumating na ang kamatayan.
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FAQs
Basic compassion—offering water and food—is treated as foundational dharma. Neglecting it rebounds as matching deprivation at death, when one is most vulnerable.
Ancillary dharma instruction.
Water and food symbolize the two primary supports of embodied life; refusal to sustain others hardens the psyche, producing corresponding inner ‘dryness’ and ‘lack’ at the final threshold.