Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 73, 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 ||
देवताओं के ये पाँच समूह तथा यज्ञ के भागी भी स्मरण किए जाते हैं। उस श्रेष्ठ मनु के मन्वन्तर में ये सब गण बारह वर्गों (समूहों) के रूप में व्यवस्थित किए गए हैं।
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.