[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c8.591 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.591 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.591 - **Language:** English ### [c8.591](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.591) 5). Some more details. Fourteen Manus have been mentioned above. Of them, the seventh Manu, Vaivasvata Manu is the Head of the present Manvantara. Some general facts about the Manus are given below:- 1) The six Manus after the eighth one namely, Dakṣasāvarṇi, Merusāvarṇi, Sūryasāvarṇi, Candrasāvarṇi, Rudrasāvarṇi and Viṣṇusāvarṇi are respectively the re-births of Karūṣa, Pṛṣadhra, Nābhāga, Diṣṭa, Śaryāti and Triśaṅku who were the sons of Vaivasvata Manu. There is a story about their taking re-births. All the six persons mentioned above were once offering worship to the idol of Devi on the banks of the river Kālindī. After twelve years, Devi appeared, under the name of Bhramarāmbikā and blessed them that in their next births they would become rulers of Manvantaras. (Devī Bhāgavata, 10th Skandha). 2) It is said that the four Manus, Svārociṣa, Uttama, Tāmasa and Raivata belonged to Priyavrata's family. It was because Priyavrata who was a Rājarṣi offered tapas to Viṣṇu that four Manus were born in his family. (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Part III, Chapter 1). 3) It is the power of Viṣṇu that dominates all the Manvantaras as the basic divinity. In the first Svāyambhuva Manvantara it was a part of that power of Viṣṇu itself that originated as Yajñapuruṣa in Ābhūti. After that when Svārociṣa Manvantara came it was again that divinity that took its origin in Tuṣitā as Ajita among the Tuṣitas. In Uttama Manvantara that divinity Tuṣita him self was born again under the name of Satya as the son of Satyā in the group of Devas called Satyas. When Tāmasa Manvantara began, that divinity was born again as the son of Haryā as a Hari in the group of Devas called Haris. It was that divinity Hari himself who was born in Sambhūti under the name of Mānasa among the Devas called Raivatas in Raivata Manvantara. In Cākṣuṣa Manvantara that Viṣṇu Bhagavān took birth in Vikuṇṭhi as one of the Vaikuṇṭhas. In the present Vaivasvata Manvantara, Viṣṇu has incarnated in Aditi as Vāmana, the son of Kaśyapa. That great Vāmana conquered all the three worlds and presented them to Devendra. (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Part III, Chapter 2). - [Previous: c8.590](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.590) - [Next: c8.592](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.592) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) ## Cites (2) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.3.1) — Sanskrit - [Devībhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.sakta.devibhagavata) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.591](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.591) · Pramāṇa