Skanda Purana — Mahesvara Khanda, Shloka 74
रौच्यो भौत्यस्तथा चापि मनवोऽमी चतुर्दश । श्वेतः पांडुस्तथा रक्तस्ताम्रः पीतश्च कापिलः
raucyo bhautyastathā cāpi manavo'mī caturdaśa | śvetaḥ pāṃḍustathā raktastāmraḥ pītaśca kāpilaḥ
رَوچْیَ اور بھَوتْیا بھی—یہی چودہ منو ہیں۔ (وہ) سفید، زردی مائل، سرخ، تانبئی، پیلا اور کپیلی رنگ کے ہیں۔
Lomaharṣaṇa (Sūta) to the sages (deduced from Māheśvara-khaṇḍa narrative convention)
Scene: A cosmic register of fourteen Manus appears like a garland of figures, with six prominent color-aura panels—white, pale, red, copper, yellow, tawny—each panel showing a Manu silhouette with corresponding aura, arranged around a central time-wheel.
FAQs
It completes the canonical Purāṇic count of fourteen Manus and adds symbolic descriptors (colors) suggesting cosmic diversity across cycles.
No holy site is specified; the passage remains cosmological.
None.