Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 16, Shloka 85
Adhyaya 16 — The Son’s Counsel on Renunciation and the Anasuya–Mandavya Episode: The Suspension of Sunrise and the Power of Pativrata
पुत्र उवाच ततो विप्रः समुत्तस्थौ व्याधिमुक्तः पुनर्युवा ।
स्वभाभिर्भासयन् वेश्म वृन्दारक इवाजरः ॥
putra uvāca tato vipraḥ samuttasthau vyādhi-muktaḥ punar yuvā | svabhābhir bhāsayan veśma vṛndāraka ivājaraḥ ||
其子说道：“于是那婆罗门起身——病患尽除，复得青春——以自身光辉照耀其宅，如天界之众，永无衰老。”
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FAQs
The story validates dharma through visible transformation: inner virtue manifests as outer well-being. The ‘radiance’ motif signals that righteousness is not abstract—it reshapes character, presence, and fate.
Again, Ākhyāna: a didactic episode demonstrating dharma and its fruits, not a cosmological or genealogical register.
Becoming ‘youthful again’ symbolizes renewal of prāṇa and sattva. The ‘house’ shining suggests that one person’s dharmic alignment can purify and brighten the entire social space (gṛha as microcosm).