Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 24, Shloka 19
Adhyaya 24 — Kuvalayashva’s Refusal of Gifts and the Vision of Madalasa’s Maya
यदि त्ववश्यं दातव्यो वरो मम यथेप्सितः ।
तत्पुण्यकर्मसंस्कारो हृदयान्मा व्यपैतु मे ॥
yadi tv avaśyaṃ dātavyo varo mama yathepsitaḥ / tat-puṇya-karma-saṃskāro hṛdayān mā vyapaitu me
Nếu điều ân huệ ta mong cầu quả thật phải được ban, thì xin cho dấu ấn thanh cao (saṃskāra) của công đức ấy đừng rời khỏi trái tim ta.
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FAQs
The best ‘boon’ is not external gain but the stable retention of dharmic disposition—merit as character, not merely outcome.
Falls under dharma/nīti instruction embedded in vaṃśānucarita-style narrative setting, but not itself a genealogical or cosmological datum.
‘Saṃskāra in the heart’ implies that repeated righteous contact engraves subtle tendencies (vāsanā) that outlast episodic rewards.