History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.775.4

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XLIV p 387) gives the names of Manvantaras according to the Visnudharmottara, Visnupurāna and other sources Sāvarnya ¹⁰⁸⁸ Manu as a great benefactor and leader of some territory occurs in Rg X 62 11 It is said that each Manvantara had a separate set of sages, sons of Manu, gods, kings, smrtis, Indra and guardians for the proper regulation of dharma and for the protection of the people (Brahma 5 39, Visnupurāna III chapters 1-2) In the Visnupurāna it is said that some gods remain for four yugas, some for a manvantara and some stay for a kalpa 1088a The Visnudharmasūtra (chap. XX 1-15) has the same account of Manvantaras and Kalpas as Manu's but it adds one detail viz that the whole age of Brahmā is equal to a day of Purusa (Visnu) and the night of Purusa is also as long. It is remarkable that the same view is attributed by Alberuni (Sachau vol I. p. 332) to the Puliśasiddhānta. It is not known whether those European scholars who regard Puliśa to be Paulus Alexandrinus have shown that this detail occurs in the work of the Greek Astrologer Paulus. In the Vanaparva (188 22-29) the same account as in Manu occurs except this that 12000 years are called Yuga¹⁰⁸⁹ simply and not caturyuga (as in Manu I 71). The Mārkaṇḍeya has a long story about Svārociṣa in chapters 58-65, devotes to Uttama chap 66-70, chapter 71 to Tāmasa, chap. 72 to Raivata, chap. 73 to Cākṣuṣa, chap.