Adhyaya 73 — The Uttama Manvantara: Classes of Devas, Indra Sushanti, and the Royal Lineage
चतुर्युगानां संख्याता साधिका ह्येकसप्ततिः ।
कृतत्रेतादिसंज्ञानां यान्युक्तानि युगे मया ॥
caturyugānāṃ saṃkhyātā sādhikā hy ekasaptatiḥ | kṛtatretādisaṃjñānāṃ yāny uktāni yuge mayā ||
ચતુર્યુગોની સંખ્યા એકોતેરથી થોડીઘણી વધુ કહેવાઈ છે—કૃત, ત્રેતા વગેરે નામ ધરાવતા તે યુગોને મેં યુગરૂપે વર્ણવ્યા છે।
Human history is placed within vast, measurable cycles; this scale relativizes individual events and emphasizes long-term dharmic continuity across recurring ages.
Manvantara: purāṇas commonly quantify manvantara-duration in terms of caturyuga counts.
The ‘71 plus’ formulation points to transitional periods (sandhyā/sandhyāṃśa) around yuga/manvantara boundaries—liminal times where order is reconstituted.