Shloka 6
Adhyaya 73 — The Uttama Manvantara: Classes of Devas, Indra Sushanti, and the Royal Lineage
एते देवगणाः पञ्च स्मृता यज्ञभुजस्तथा ।
मन्वन्तरे मनुश्रेष्ठे सर्वे द्वादशका गणाः ॥
ete devagaṇāḥ pañca smṛtā yajñabhujas tathā | manvantare manuśreṣṭhe sarve dvādaśakā gaṇāḥ ||
Se recuerdan estos cinco grupos de dioses, y asimismo a los partícipes del sacrificio; en el manvantara de aquel excelente Manu, todos estos grupos quedan dispuestos en doce conjuntos (clases).
FAQs
Cosmic order is presented as structured and repeatable across epochs: the same sacrificial and divine offices recur in each Manu-era, reinforcing the idea of ṛta (ordered regularity) behind ritual and governance.
Manvantara: it explicitly organizes beings and offices within a particular Manu’s reign, a core purāṇic characteristic.
The “twelvefold grouping” can be read as a symbolic partitioning of cosmic functions (time/space/ritual offices) into complete cycles, suggesting that yajña is the axis by which divine roles are harmonized.