Markandeyapurana 35.36
Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 35.36
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- Sanskrit
35.36
abhojyaṃ sūtikā-ṣaṇḍa-mārjārākhuśvakukkuṭān /
patitāviddhacaṇḍāla-mṛtahārāṃśca dharmavit //
After touching or holding converse with blasphemers of the gods, pitṛs, and holy śāstras, sacrifices, prayers and other sacred objects, one should purify one’s self by gazing at the sun. And after looking at a menstruous woman, a śūdra, an outcaste, or a dead body, the unrighteous, a woman recently delivered of a child, a eunuch, a naked person, and persons of low caste, and on those who give away children, and on the paramours of other men’s wives, the wise must indeed perform this purification of themselves. One conversant with righteousness, after touching forbidden food, a woman recently delivered, a eunuch, a cat, a rat, a dog, or a cock, and an outcaste, what is cast away, a Caṇḍāla, and those who carry away corpses, is purified by bathing; and so also one who has touched a woman in her courses, and the domestic hog, and even two men who have been contaminated by the impurity of a newly-delivered woman.
Translations (2)
- The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English
- English (machine translation) — English, machine translation