Shloka 22
Adhyaya 53 — Rudrasarga and the Measure of the Manvantaras: Svayambhuva Manu, Priyavrata’s Line, and the Seven Dvipas
तन्नामकानि वर्षाणि शाकद्वीपे चकार सः । तथा द्युतिमतः सप्त पुत्रास्तांश्च निबोध मे ॥
tan-nāmakāni varṣāṇi śākadvīpe cakāra saḥ | tathā dyutimataḥ sapta putrās tāṃś ca nibodha me ||
त्याने शाकद्वीपातील वर्षांना त्याच नावांनी नामांकित केले. तसेच द्युतिमताचेही सात पुत्र होते—तेही माझ्याकडून ऐक.
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FAQs
The text models a worldview where social order (lineage) and spatial order (regions) are mutually reinforcing—identity, duty, and territory are interlinked.
Vamśa (lineages) used to articulate cosmographic Sarga-like description of the world’s arrangement.
Naming is a creative act: to ‘make’ regions by name implies that intelligibility and sacred mapping arise through śabda (designation) as much as through physical description.