{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/db/bk10ch08.htm","path":"hin/db/bk10ch08.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk10ch08.htm","text":"THE TENTH BOOK\nChapter VIII\nOn the origin of Manu\n1. Saunaka said :-- \u201cO S\u00fbta! You have described the beautiful narrative of the first Manu Sv\u00e2yambhuva. Now kindly describe to us the narratives of other highly energetic Deva-like Manus.\u201d\n2-3. S\u00fbta said :-- \u201cO Risis! The very wise N\u00e2rada, well versed in the knowledge of S\u2019r\u00ee Dev\u00ee, hearing the glorious character of the first Sv\u00e2yambhuva Manu, became desirous to hear of the other Manus and asked the Eternal N\u00e2r\u00e2yana :-- O Deva! Now favour me by reciting the origin and narratives of the other Manus.\u201d\n4. N\u00e2r\u00e2yana said :-- O Devarsi! I have already spoken to you everything regarding the first Manu. He had worshipped the Dev\u00ee Bhagavat\u00ee, and thus he got his foeless kingdom. You know that then.\n5-24 Manu had two sons of great prowess, Priyavrata and Utt\u00e2nap\u00e2da. They governed their kingdoms with fame. The son of this Priyavrata,\nof indomitable valour, is known by the wise as the second Sv\u00e2rochisa Manu. Dear to all the beings, this Sv\u00e2rochisa Manu built his hermitage near the banks of the K\u00e2lind\u00ee (the Jumn\u00e2) and there making an earthen image of the Dev\u00ee Bhagavat\u00ee, worshipped the Dev\u00ee with devotion, subsisting on dry leaves and thus practised severe austerities. Thus he passed his twelve years in that forest; when, at last, the Dev\u00ee Bhagavat\u00ee, resplendent with brilliance of the thousand Suns, became visible to him. She got very much pleased with his devotional stotrams. The Dev\u00ee, the Saviour of the Devas, and Who was of good vows, granted to him the sovereignty for one Manvantara. Thus the Dev\u00ee became famous by the name T\u00e2rin\u00ee Jagaddh\u00e2tr\u00ee. O N\u00e2rada! Thus, by worshipping the Dev\u00ee T\u00e2rin\u00ee, Sv\u00e2rochisa obtained safely the foeless kingdom. Then establishing the Dharma duly, he enjoyed his kingdom with his sons; and, when the period of his manvantara expired, he went to the Heavens. Priyavrata's son named Uttama became the third Manu. On the banks of the Ganges, be practised tapasy\u00e2 and repeated the V\u00eeja Mantra of V\u00e2gbhava, in a solitary place for three years and became blessed with the favour of the Dev\u00ee. With rapt devotion he sang hymns wholly to the Dev\u00ee with his mind full; and, by Her boon, got the foeless kingdom and a continual succession of sons and grandsons. Thus, enjoying the pleasures of his kingdom and the gifts of the Yuga Dharma, got in the end, the excellent place, obtained by the best R\u00e2jarsis. A very happy result. Priyavarata's another son named T\u00e2masa became the fourth Manu. He practised austerities and repeated the K\u00e2ma V\u00eeja Mantra, the Spiritual Password of K\u00e2ma on the southern banks of the Narmad\u00e2 river and worshipped the World Mother. In the spring and in the autumn he observed the nine nights' vow ( the Navar\u00e2tri) and worshipped the excellent lotus eyed Deves'\u00ee and pleased Her. On obtaining the Dev\u00ee's favour, he chanted excellent hymns to Her and made pran\u00e2ms. There he enjoyed the extensive kingdom without any fear from any foe or from any other source of danger. He generated, in the womb of his wife, ten sons, all very powerful and mighty, and then he departed, to the excellent region in the Heavens.\nThe young brother of T\u00e2masa, Raivata became the Fifth Manu and practised austerities on the banks of the K\u00e2lind\u00ee (the Jumn\u00e2) and repeated the K\u00e2ma V\u00eeja Mantra, the spiritual password of K\u00e2ma, the resort of the S\u00e2dhakas, capable to give the highest power of speech and to yield all the Siddhis, and thus he worshipped the Dev\u00ee. He obtained excellent heavens, indomitable power, unhampered and capable of all success and a continual line of sons, grandsons, etc. Then the unrivalled excellent hero Raivata Manu established the several divisions of Dharma and enjoying all the worldly pleasures, went to the excellent region of Indra.\nHere ends the Eighth Chapter of the Tenth Book on the origin of Manu in the Mah\u00e2puranam S'ri Mad Dev\u00ee Bh\u00e2gavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vy\u00e2sa.","title":"The Devi Bhagavatam: The Tenth Book: Chapter 8","type":"page"}