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Markandeyapurana 50.33

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 50.33

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Sanskrit

50.33

nirṛtiśca tathā cānyā mṛtyorbhāryābhavanmune /
alakṣmīrnāma tasyāñca mṛtyoḥ putrāścaturdaśa //

Nirṛti also was the wife of Mṛtyu, and Mṛtyu had another wife called Alakṣmī (Ill Fortune); and by the latter Mṛtyu had fourteen sons. These are his sons by Alakṣmī; they carry out Mṛtyu’s commands; they visit men at the times of dissolution; hear about them. They dwell in the ten organs of sense and in the mind; for they influence man or woman each towards his own object of sense; and assailing the organs of sense they influence men by means of passion, anger and other feelings, so that men suffer injury through unrighteousness and other evil ways, O brāhman.

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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