Shloka 6
Adhyaya 73 — Birth of the Goddess
एते देवगणाः पञ्च स्मृता यज्ञभुजस्तथा ।
मन्वन्तरे मनुश्रेष्ठे सर्वे द्वादशका गणाः ॥
ete devagaṇāḥ pañca smṛtā yajñabhujas tathā | manvantare manuśreṣṭhe sarve dvādaśakā gaṇāḥ ||
देवगणाः पञ्च स्मर्यन्ते तथा यज्ञभागिनोऽपि। तस्मिन् श्रेष्ठमन्वन्तरे तस्य मनोः सर्वे ते गणाः द्वादशवर्गरूपेण विन्यस्ताः॥
FAQs
Cosmic order is presented as structured and repeatable across epochs: the same sacrificial and divine offices recur in each Manu-era, reinforcing the idea of ṛta (ordered regularity) behind ritual and governance.
Manvantara: it explicitly organizes beings and offices within a particular Manu’s reign, a core purāṇic characteristic.
The “twelvefold grouping” can be read as a symbolic partitioning of cosmic functions (time/space/ritual offices) into complete cycles, suggesting that yajña is the axis by which divine roles are harmonized.