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Markandeyapurana 50.62

Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 50.62

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Sanskrit

50.62

bhavato vaiśvadevānte nāmoccāraṇapūrvakam /
etat taveti dāsyanti bhavato balimūrjitam //

“Study by one who is not a Brahmacārī, and sacrifice performed by an unlearned man; austerities practised in a forest[30] by men who indulge in worldly pleasures[31] and by men of unsubdued soul; the action which is done according to their respective occupations by brahmans, kṣatriyas, Vaiśyas and śūdras, who have fallen from their castes, and who desire to gain the objects of the next world, and whatever the results of that action —all that shall be thine, O goblin. And more yet I give thee for thy nourishment; hearken thereto. Men shall give thee a plenteous bali offering at the close of the Vaiśvadeva ceremony, first uttering thy name and then saying “this is for thee.”

Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa

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