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 ||
如是，我已为你叙述了直到（并包括）罗伊伐多在内的诸摩奴。这些皆与自生者斯瓦扬布瓦（Svāyambhuva）相系而出——唯独斯瓦罗奇沙（Svārociṣa）摩奴例外。
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.