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
ਇਸੇ ਤਰ੍ਹਾਂ ਅੱਠ ਦੇਵਤਿਆਂ ਦਾ ਇੱਕ ਹੋਰ ਗਣ ‘ਭਵ੍ਯ’ ਕਿਹਾ ਜਾਂਦਾ ਹੈ; ਅਤੇ ਉੱਥੇ ਹੀ ਅੱਠ ਦਾ ਚੌਥਾ ਗਣ ਵੀ ਹੈ, ਜੋ ‘ਯੂਥਗ’ ਨਾਮ ਨਾਲ ਪ੍ਰਸਿੱਧ ਹੈ।
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.