Markandeyapurana 14.70
Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 14.70
- Language
- Sanskrit
14.70
durbhikṣe sambhrame vāpi so 'pyevaṃ yamakiṅkaraiḥ /
utkṛtya dattāni mukhe svamāṃsānyaśnute kṣudhā //
“Whatever man, moreover, engrossed in his own nourishment abandons his destitute children, dependants, wife and other relatives in a famine or in a disturbance, he indeed in his hunger thus gets portions of his own flesh, which Tama’s servants cut off and put into his mouth.
Translations (2)
- The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation