Manava Dharmashastra 1.36

1.36

ete maharṣayaḥ saptānyānmanūnasṛjan | adhikāraśabdo'yaṃ manuriti | manvantare yasya prajāsarge tadsthitau vā'dhikāra uktena prakāreṇa sa manurityucyate | bhūritejasa amitaujasa iti caika evārthaḥ | ekaṃ prathamāntaṃ sraṣṭṛviśeṣaṇam, dvitīyaṃ dvitīyāntaṃ sraṣṭavyānāṃ manvādīnāṃ viśeṣaṇam | “nanu devā brahmagaiva sṛṣṭāḥ” | satyam, na sarve | aparimitā hi devasaṅghātāḥ | devanikāyā hi devasthānāni svargalokabrahmalokādīni |

Medhātithi’s commentary (manubhāṣya):
The aforesaid Great Sages. ‘called into being the seven Manus’; ‘Manu’ is the name of the office; that person is called ‘Manu’ who, during a particular ‘Manvantara’ (Cycle), controls the creating and maintaining of all created things, in the manner described.

‘Bkūritejasaḥ,’ ‘mighty,’ and ‘amitaujasaḥ,’ ‘possessing illimitable power,’—both terms mean the same thing; the former with the nominative ending qualifies the creators, and the latter, with the accusative ending, qualifies those created, Manus and the rest.

Question:—“But the gods were created by Brahmā himself (as already described in Verse 22).”

Answer:—True; but not all of them; there are endless kinds of gods.

‘Gods’ habitations’—The abode of the gods, such as the Celestial Region, the ‘Region of Brahman,’ and so forth.—(36)