Adhyaya 80: Vaivasvata Manvantara: Enumeration of Manus and the Eighth Manu Sāvarṇi

Verse 1

इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे सावर्णिके मन्वन्तरे वैवस्वतकिर्तनं नामैकोनाशीतितमोऽध्यायः । अशीतितमोऽध्यायः— ८० । क्रौष्टुकिरुवाच स्वायम्भुवाद्याः कथिताः सप्‍तैते मनवो मम । तदन्तरेषु ये देवा राजानो मुनयस्तथा ॥

Thus in the Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, in the Sāvarṇika Manvantara, the seventy-ninth chapter called ‘The Praise/Account of Vaivasvata’ ends. Chapter 80 begins. Krauṣṭuki said: ‘The seven Manus beginning with Svāyambhuva have been told to me; and in their intervals, which gods, kings, and sages appear?’

Verse 2

अस्मिन् कल्पे सप्‍त येऽन्ये भविष्यन्ति महामुने । मनवस्तान् समाचक्ष्व ये च देवादयश्च ये ॥

In this kalpa, O great sage, tell me of the other seven Manus who are yet to come to be, and also of the gods and others associated with them.

Verse 3

मार्कण्डेय उवाच कथितस्तव सावर्णिश्छायासंज्ञासुतश्च यः । पूर्वजस्य मनोस्तुल्यः स मनुर्भविताष्टमः ॥

Mārkaṇḍeya said: ‘Sāvarṇi—who is the son of Chāyā and Saṃjñā—has been described to you. Equal to the earlier Manu, he will be the eighth Manu.’

Verse 4

रामो व्यासो गालवश्च दीप्तिमान्कृप एव च । ऋष्यशृङ्गस्तथा द्रोणस्तत्र सप्तर्षयोऽभवन् ॥

There were the Seven Sages: Rāma, Vyāsa, Gālava, Dīptimān, Kṛpa, Ṛṣyaśṛṅga, and Droṇa.

Verse 5

सुतपाश्चामिताभाश्च मुख्याश्चैव त्रिधा सुराः । विंशकः कथिताश्चैषां त्रयाणां त्रिगुणो गणः ॥

The gods are threefold: the Sutapās, the Amitābhās, and the Mukhyas. Each is declared as a group of twenty; thus, for the three, the total host is three times twenty.

Verse 6

तपस्तप्तश्च शक्रश्च द्युतिर्ज्योतिः प्रभाकरः । प्रभासो दयितो धर्मस्तेजोरश्मिश्चिरक्रतुः ॥

Tapastapta, Śakra, Dyuti, Jyotis, Prabhākara, Prabhāsa, Dayita, Dharma, Tejorāśmi, and Cirakratu—(these are among that group).

Verse 7

इत्यादिकस्तु सुतपा देवानां विंशको गणः । प्रभुर्विभुर्विभासाद्यस्तथान्यो विंशको गणः ॥

Such names beginning with these constitute the Sutapā group of twenty gods. Likewise, another group of twenty begins with Prabhu, Vibhu, and Vibhāsa.

Verse 8

सुराणाममिताभानां तृतीयमपि मे शृणु । दमो दान्तो ऋतः सोमो वित्ताद्याश्चैव विंशतिः ॥

Hear from me also the third group of the gods—the Amitābhās: Dama, Dānta, Ṛta, Soma, Vitta, and others—making up twenty.

Verse 9

मुख्या ह्येते समाख्याता देवा मन्वन्तराधिपाः । मारीचस्यैव ते पुत्राः कश्यपस्य प्रजापतेः ॥

These are called the Mukhyas—the gods who preside over a Manvantara. Indeed, they are the sons of Marīci, born of Kaśyapa the Prajāpati.

Verse 10

भविष्याश्च भविष्यन्ति सावर्णस्यान्तरे मनोः । तेषामिन्द्रो भविष्यस्तु बलिर्वैरोचनिर्मुने ॥

In the future, in the Manvantara of Sāvarṇi Manu, they will be so. And their Indra will be Bali, the son of Virocana, O sage.

Verse 11

पाताल आस्ते योऽद्यापि दैत्यः समयबन्धनः । विरजाश्चार्ववीरश्च निर्मोहः सत्यवाक्कृतिः । विष्ण्वाद्याश्चैव तनयाः सावर्णस्य मनोर्नृपाः ॥

That Daitya (Bali) still dwells in Pātāla, bound by an agreement. Viraja, Cārvavīra, Nirmoha, Satyavāk, Kṛti, and others beginning with Viṣṇu are the sons—kings—of Sāvarṇi Manu.