[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Markandeyapurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya) › 74.2 # Markandeyapurana 74.2 Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa 74.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [74.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.74.2) tasyāyuḥ sumahatprādāt mantriṇārādhito raviḥ / patnīnāñca śatantasya dhanyānāmabhavad dvija // > Mārkaṇḍeya spoke: > There lived on the earth a famous king, by name Svarāskṭra, valiant, an offerer of many sacrifices, wise, invincible in battles. The sun being invoked by bis ministers gave him a very long life; and he had a hundred happy wives, O brahman. The wives of that long-lived king were not very long-lived, O muni; and in time his servants, ministers and people came to their end. And he, being bereft\[1\] of his wives and bis servants who were his equals in age, was dejected in mind and dwindled in vigour day and night. A neighbouring king named Vimarda ousted him then from his kingdom, failing as he teas in vigour, deprived of his devoted adherents, greatly afflicted. And being ousted\[2\] from his kingdom, he went to a forest, despairing in mind, and taking up his abode on a sandbank in the Vitastā, illustrious as he was, he practised austerities. Undergoing the five fires in the hot season,\[3\] exposing himself naked to the showers\[4\] in the rainy season, and lying in water in the cold season, he lived abstaining from food, strict in his devout rites. > — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa - [Previous: 74.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.74.1) - [Next: 74.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.74.3) - [Up: 74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.74) ## Translations (2) - [The Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya~en-pargiter.74.p2) — Frederick Eden Pargiter 1888, English - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya~en-mt.74.2) — English, machine translation --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.74.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.74.2) · Pramāṇa