manu
मनु manuThe progenitor-ruler of a manvantara; the present age is that of the seventh Manu, Vaivasvata.
Where this term appears
- The caste system: what Hinduism says Essentials
The Manusmriti , the "Laws of Manu," composed sometime between roughly the second century BCE and the third century CE, sets out an elaborate, birth-based ranking of the varnas, with detailed and often harsh ru…
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
Fourth, manvantara , the vast cosmic ages, each presided over by a Manu, a progenitor of humankind.
- What are the Vedas? Scriptures
The great epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana , the Puranas , the law book attributed to Manu: all of these are smriti.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Rigveda 3.62.10 is addressed to Savitr, and Manu 2.78 and 2.101 fix it in the twice-daily sandhya , to be murmured standing at the morning juncture until the sun appears.
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
…sun", and inside it he was born as Brahmā, grandfather of the worlds (Manu 1.8 to 1.9, in G.
- The Dashavatara: The Ten Avatars of Vishnu Deities
Matsya , the fish, appears at the cosmic flood, towing the boat that carries Manu, the seeds of life, and the Vedas to safety across the drowned world.
- The Four Aims of Life (Purusharthas) Essentials
For dharma there is the vast literature of Dharmashastra , the treatises on duty and law, of which the Manusmriti , the Laws of Manu, is the most famous and the most argued over.
- The Four Ashramas: the stages of life Essentials
When a man sees his skin wrinkle and his sons bear sons, the Laws of Manu say, he may withdraw to the forest, taking his sacred fires with him and either leaving his wife with his sons or bringing her along.