रौच्यो भौत्यस्तथा चापि मनवोऽमी चतुर्दश । श्वेतः पांडुस्तथा रक्तस्ताम्रः पीतश्च कापिलः
raucyo bhautyastathā cāpi manavo'mī caturdaśa | śvetaḥ pāṃḍustathā raktastāmraḥ pītaśca kāpilaḥ
Raucya and Bhautyā as well—these are the fourteen Manus. (They are) White, Pale, Red, Coppery, Yellow, and Tawny.
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) to the sages (deduced from Māheśvara-khaṇḍa narrative convention)
Scene: A cosmic register of fourteen Manus appears like a garland of figures, with six prominent color-aura panels—white, pale, red, copper, yellow, tawny—each panel showing a Manu silhouette with corresponding aura, arranged around a central time-wheel.
It completes the canonical Purāṇic count of fourteen Manus and adds symbolic descriptors (colors) suggesting cosmic diversity across cycles.
No holy site is specified; the passage remains cosmological.
None.