Shloka 36
इन्द्रद्युम्नोपाख्यानम्
Indradyumna Upākhyāna: On Kīrti, Smṛti, and Restoration
न कन्यां याचते कक्षिन्नापि कन्या प्रदीयते । स्वयंग्राहा भविष्यन्ति युगान्ते समुपस्थिते
na kanyāṃ yācate kaścin nāpi kanyā pradīyate | svayaṃgrāhā bhaviṣyanti yugānte samupasthite ||
马尔坎德耶说道：“那时，无人再依礼求娶少女，少女也不再按仪式被正式出嫁。待劫末临近，婚配将出于自择与自取，脱离旧有的礼法。”
मार्कण्डेय उवाच
Educational Q&A
The verse portrays a yuga-ending decline in dharmic social institutions: marriage shifts from a rite governed by family and prescribed norms (asking and giving) to unregulated self-choice/self-taking, signaling erosion of communal responsibility and customary dharma.
Mārkaṇḍeya is describing signs of the approaching end of an age (yugānta). As part of these portents, he notes that traditional marriage negotiations and formal gifting of the bride will cease, replaced by spontaneous self-formed unions.