Markandeyapurana 34.4

34.4

alarka uvāca
kathitaṃ me tvayā mātarnitya naimittikañca yat /
nityanaimittikañcaiva trividhaṃ karma pauruṣam //

Alarka spoke:
“Thou hast declared to me, mother, the threefold ceremonies to he observed by men, the perpetual, the occasional, and the periodic.[2] I wish to hear, O lady who gladdenest thy family, about Virtuous Custom by practising which a man gains happiness in the next world and in this.”