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Markandeya Purana 34.77

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 34.77

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34.77

avyaṅgīṃ saumyanāsāñca sravalakṣaṇalakṣitām /
tādṛśīmudvahet kanyāṃ śreyaḥ kāmo naraḥ sadā //

“He should eschew a maiden although well-born, if she is deformed, or sickly, or disfigured, or tawny-coloured, or talkative, or contaminated by everybody. And one who is free from deformity, who has a beautiful nose, and is marked with all the auspicious marks—such a maiden as that should a man always marry who desires welfare. He should marry one who is in the seventh or fifth degree distant from his parents: he should guard his wife, and he should shun jealousy, by day, in sleep and in sexual intercourse.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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