Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 31, Shloka 9
Adhyaya 31 — Naimittika and Related Śrāddha Rites: Sapiṇḍīkaraṇa, Eligibility, Timing, and Procedure
यदम्बु स्नानवस्त्रोत्थं भूमौ पतति पुत्रक ।
तेन ये तरुतां प्राप्तास्तेषां तृप्तिः प्रजायते ॥
yad ambu strānavastrotthaṃ bhūmau patati putraka / tena ye tarutāṃ prāptās teṣāṃ tṛptiḥ prajāyate
Mahal kong anak, ang tubig na bumabagsak sa lupa mula sa pagligo at sa paglalaba ng kasuotan—sa pamamagitan niyon, ang mga napunta sa kalagayang puno ay nagkakamit ng kasiyahan.
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FAQs
Daily purity-practices are not merely personal hygiene; they are framed as dharmic acts with compassionate spillover effects, benefiting beings (including ancestors) in non-human conditions.
Falls under Ācāra/Dharma instruction; it is ancillary to Purāṇic cosmology by mapping ethical action onto rebirth categories.
Water, as a carrier of saṃskāra (impressions), becomes an offering even when ‘incidental’; the verse encodes the idea that purity generates subtle nourishment across embodied forms.