Shloka 76
Adhyaya 75 — The Fall and Restoration of Revatī Nakṣatra and the Birth of Raivata Manu
रैवतान्तास्तु मनवः कथिता ये मया तव ।
स्वायम्भुवाश्रया ह्येते स्वारोचिषमृते मनुम् ॥
raivatāntās tu manavaḥ kathitā ye mayā tava | svāyambhuvāśrayā hy ete svārociṣam ṛte manum ||
Assim, os Manus até (e incluindo) Raivata foram por mim descritos a ti. Estes estão ligados (derivados) de Svāyambhuva—exceto o Manu Svārociṣa.
FAQs
Purāṇic historiography classifies epochs by descent and affiliation; the ‘exception’ note shows an intent to preserve internal consistency in cosmic genealogy.
Manvantara: it functions as a colophon-like wrap-up of the narrated manvantara sequence and its genealogical linkage.
The ‘Svāyambhuva-āśraya’ idea points to a single primordial source-pattern from which multiple time-cycles unfold, with occasional ‘branch’ exceptions marking cosmic variability.