Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 16, Shloka 88
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
अनसूयोवाच यदि देवाः प्रसन्ना मे पितामहपुरोगमाः ।
वरदा वरयोग्या च यद्यहं भवतां मता ॥
anasūyovāca yadi devāḥ prasannā me pitāmaha-purogamāḥ | varadā vara-yogyā ca yady ahaṃ bhavatāṃ matā ||
Anasūyā nói: “Nếu các chư thiên—do Đấng Tổ Phụ (Brahmā) dẫn đầu—hài lòng về tôi, và nếu các ngài xem tôi xứng đáng thọ nhận một ân huệ, và các ngài là những bậc ban ân…”
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FAQs
Even when empowered by virtue, the ideal recipient of grace remains humble and careful about adhikāra (worthiness). The verse models respectful address to divine authority and a non-entitled posture toward rewards.
Ākhyāna: a boon-request scene within a dharma narrative; not directly one of the five cosmological markers.
The conditional framing (‘if you deem me worthy’) indicates that siddhi must be stabilized by humility; otherwise power becomes egoic. Brahmā as ‘pitāmaha’ signals sanction from the cosmic order (vidhi).