Shloka 12
Adhyaya 79 — The Vaivasvata Manvantara: Classes of Devas, the Seven Sages, and Manu’s Nine Sons
करूषश्च पृषध्रश्च वसुमान् लोकविश्रुतः ।
मनोर् वैवस्वतस्यैते नव पुत्राः प्रकीर्तिताः ॥
karūṣaś ca pṛṣadhraś ca vasumān lokaviśrutaḥ |
manor vaivasvatasyaite nava putrāḥ prakīrtitāḥ ||
करूषः पृषध्रश्च तथा वसुमान् जगत्प्रसिद्धः—एते वैवस्वतमनोर् नव पुत्रा इति प्रकीर्तिताः।
FAQs
Enumerations like ‘nine sons’ are mnemonic anchors: they preserve cultural memory of dharmic polity and the transmission of social order through legitimate succession.
Vaṃśa/Vaṃśānucarita: dynastic cataloging as an essential Purāṇic characteristic.
The number-nine motif can suggest completeness in a cycle of progeny and governance; in Purāṇic style it marks a closed set within the larger time-cycle.