Shloka 67
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
ऋषिरुवाच भविष्यत्येष ते कामो मनुस्त्वत्तनयो महीम् ।
सकलां भोक्ष्यते भूप धर्मविच्च भविष्यति ॥
ṛṣiruvāca bhaviṣyaty eṣa te kāmo manus tvat-tanayo mahīm | sakalāṃ bhokṣyate bhūpa dharmavic ca bhaviṣyati ||
मुनी म्हणाले— “तुझी ही इच्छा पूर्ण होईल. तुझा पुत्र मनु होईल; हे राजन्, तो संपूर्ण पृथ्वीवर राज्य करील आणि धर्मज्ञ असेल।”
FAQs
Legitimate power is inseparable from dharma-knowledge; the highest political authority (a Manu) is validated by moral discernment, not force alone.
Manvantara and Vaṃśānucarita: it announces the rise of a Manu within a lineage and defines his qualities as dharmic governance.
The ‘entire earth’ can also be read as the total field of embodied experience; dharma-knowledge ‘rules’ life when ethical insight governs all faculties.