Adhyaya 53 — The Great Flood
मन्वन्तरप्रमाणञ्च इत्येतत् साधिकं विना ।
अष्टौ शतसहस्राणि दिव्यया संख्यया स्मृतम् ॥
manvantarapramāṇañ ca ity etat sādhikaṃ vinā | aṣṭau śatasahasrāṇi divyayā saṃkhyayā smṛtam
ហើយ មាត្រដ្ឋាននៃមន្វន្តរៈនេះ—ដោយមិនរាប់បញ្ចូលផ្នែក “បន្ថែម” (សាធិក)—ត្រូវបានចងចាំថា មាន៨សែន ក្នុងការគណនាតាមទេវកាល។
Different scales of time are not contradictions but pedagogical frames: the same cosmic order is narrated to match the listener’s capacity.
Manvantara: technical specification of duration, including how the ‘added’ interval is treated in reckoning.
‘Divine count’ implies a perspective shift: when consciousness is elevated, what seems immeasurably long becomes a graspable unit—time is relative to the knower.