Markandeyapurana 31.28
Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 31.28
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- Sanskrit
31.28
kanyādūṣayitā vaidyo gurupitrostathojjhakaḥ /
bhṛtakādhyāpako 'mitraḥ parapūrvāpatistathā //
“A religions student who has been incontinent, and a sick man, and one who has a limb superfluous or deficient, the son of a widow remarried, and a one-eyed man, an adulterine son, and a widow's bastard, my son, a traitor to his friends, one who has bad nails, an impotent man, a man with brown teeth, a brāhman negligent of his duties, a man cursed by his father, a slanderer, a vendor of soma juice, one who has deflowered his daughter, a medical man, and one who has discarded his guru and father, a hired teacher, a friend,[6] and the husband of a previously-married woman, one who discards the Vedas, and one who abandons the sacred fire, a man who has been corrupted by the husband of a low caste woman,[7] and others who habitually practise improper acts, —all these persons are verily to be shunned in ceremonies to the pitṛs, (O brāhmans.)
Translations (2)
- The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation