manvantara
मन्वन्तर manvantaraThe vast age presided over by a single Manu; fourteen manvantaras make up one day of Brahma.
Where this term appears
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
Fourth, manvantara , the vast cosmic ages, each presided over by a Manu, a progenitor of humankind.
- Hindu cosmology: the fourteen worlds and the ages of the universe Essentials
Hindu cosmology describes not one creation but a beginningless cycle. The universe is a brahmāṇḍa, a cosmic egg, breathed out and drawn back in across immense spans…
- Of Old Treatise
…er world; vamsha , the genealogies of the gods and the ancient sages; manvantara , the vast ages each presided over by a Manu , a progenitor of humankind; and vamshanucharita , the genealogies and deeds of the …
- The Wheel of Ages Treatise
…ay, fourteen Manus reign one after another, each over an age called a manvantara , each manvantara running to more than three hundred million years and having its own Manu, its own ruler of the gods, its own se…
- The Government of the Cosmos Treatise
Each cosmic age, each manvantara , has its own seven sages, re-appointed as the ages turn.