Shloka 19
Manvantaras, Indras, Saptarṣis, and the Seven Sustaining Manifestations; Vyāsa as Nārāyaṇa
स्वारोचिषश्चोत्तमश्च तामसो रैवतस्तथा / प्रियव्रतान्वया ह्येते चत्वारो मनवः स्मृताः
svārociṣaścottamaśca tāmaso raivatastathā / priyavratānvayā hyete catvāro manavaḥ smṛtāḥ
Svārociṣa, Uttama, Tāmasa und ebenso Raivata — diese vier Manus gelten als dem Geschlecht Priyavratas zugehörig.
Traditional Purana narrator (Suta-like narration) recounting cosmological genealogy
Primary Rasa: shanta
Secondary Rasa: adbhuta
FAQs
This verse is primarily genealogical, mapping the succession of Manus; it supports the Purana’s broader vision of an ordered cosmos governed by dharma, within which realization of the Self is taught elsewhere (not explicitly in this line).
No specific yoga practice is described in this verse; it functions as cosmological framing that, in the Kurma Purana, precedes and contextualizes later spiritual instruction such as Pashupata-oriented discipline and devotion.
It does not directly address Shiva–Vishnu unity; it contributes to the shared puranic cosmology in which divine governance and dharmic cycles are upheld, a backdrop for the text’s later synthesis of Shaiva and Vaishnava teachings.