Mārkaṇḍeya

Mārkaṇḍeya

Mārkaṇḍeya is a name used for more than one ṛshi and place in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.

People

• Mārkaṇḍeya Maharshi: the cirañjīva who conquered death by bhakti to Bhagavān Śiva, led the Sarasvatī into Kurukshetra and alone survived the pralaya, as told in Mārkaṇḍeya at the Pralaya (Brahma Purāṇa). Agni Purāṇa; Bhāgavata Purāṇa; Mahābhārata, Araṇya Parva; Vāmana Purāṇa; Bhavishya Purāṇa; Brahma Purāṇa

Places

• Mārkaṇḍeya (Tīrtha): a tīrtha named in the Brahma Purāṇa’s list of the holy tīrthas and kshetras of the earth, whose service gives the fruit of an aśvamedha. Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 25
• Mārkaṇḍeya Tīrtha (Gautamī): the tīrtha on the northern bank of the Gautamī where Bhagavān Śiva taught the ṛshis led by Mārkaṇḍeya that all is gained through karma, as told in The Debate of the Ṛshis on Karma and Jñāna. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 75