Shloka 76
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
रैवतान्तास्तु मनवः कथिता ये मया तव ।
स्वायम्भुवाश्रया ह्येते स्वारोचिषमृते मनुम् ॥
raivatāntās tu manavaḥ kathitā ye mayā tava | svāyambhuvāśrayā hy ete svārociṣam ṛte manum ||
Thus, the Manus up to (and including) Raivata have been described to you by me. These are connected with (i.e., derived from) Svāyambhuva—except for the Manu Svārociṣa.
FAQs
Purāṇic historiography classifies epochs by descent and affiliation; the ‘exception’ note shows an intent to preserve internal consistency in cosmic genealogy.
Manvantara: it functions as a colophon-like wrap-up of the narrated manvantara sequence and its genealogical linkage.
The ‘Svāyambhuva-āśraya’ idea points to a single primordial source-pattern from which multiple time-cycles unfold, with occasional ‘branch’ exceptions marking cosmic variability.