Markandeyapurana 71.1

71.1

mārkaṇḍeya uvāca
tāṃ preṣayitvā rājāpi svabhartṛgṛhamaṅganām /
cintayāmāsa niḥ śvasya kimatra sukataṃ bhavet //

Mārkaṇḍeya spoke:
Now the king, after despatching the woman to her husband’s house, sighed and thought, “What good deed may there be in this? The high-minded muni declared I was wretched because of my unfitness for the arghya offering; and this night-roaming demon spoke of ‘impaired condition’ with reference to the brāhman. Being such, what shall I do, for I abandoned her, my wife? Or shall I enquire of that best of munis who has the eye of knowledge?”