Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 75, Shloka 76
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
रैवतान्तास्तु मनवः कथिता ये मया तव ।
स्वायम्भुवाश्रया ह्येते स्वारोचिषमृते मनुम् ॥
raivatāntās tu manavaḥ kathitā ye mayā tava | svāyambhuvāśrayā hy ete svārociṣam ṛte manum ||
इस प्रकार रैवत तक के मनुओं का वर्णन मैंने तुमसे किया। ये सब स्वायम्भुव से सम्बद्ध हैं—केवल स्वारोचिष मनु को छोड़कर।
FAQs
Purāṇic historiography classifies epochs by descent and affiliation; the ‘exception’ note shows an intent to preserve internal consistency in cosmic genealogy.
Manvantara: it functions as a colophon-like wrap-up of the narrated manvantara sequence and its genealogical linkage.
The ‘Svāyambhuva-āśraya’ idea points to a single primordial source-pattern from which multiple time-cycles unfold, with occasional ‘branch’ exceptions marking cosmic variability.