Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 76, Shloka 51
Adhyaya 76 — The Sixth Manvantara: Cakshusha Manu, the Child-Snatcher, and the Problem of Kinship
तथैवाष्टक एवाऽन्यो भव्याख्यो देवतागणः ।
चतुर्थश्च गणस्तत्र यूथगाख्यस्तथाष्टकः ॥
tathaivāṣṭaka evānyo bhavyākhyo devatāgaṇaḥ / caturthaś ca gaṇas tatra yūthagākhyas tathāṣṭakaḥ
इसी प्रकार आठ देवताओं का एक और गण ‘भव्य’ कहलाता है; और वहीं आठ का चौथा गण भी है, जो ‘यूथग’ नाम से प्रसिद्ध है।
FAQs
Purāṇic cosmology emphasizes structured plurality: divine order is distributed across many cohorts, suggesting cooperative governance rather than a single monolithic agency.
Manvantara: this is the standard enumerative component describing the deva-structure in a given Manu’s epoch.
The repeated ‘aṣṭaka’ pattern can be read as a symbolic insistence on completeness and balance—cosmic functions arranged into stable sets within each cycle.