 | John Bayly Sommers Carwithen - 1810 - 384 pages
...is believed to preside over the world. The reign of fourteen Menus constitutes a day of ISru/iina ; each Menu, they suppose, transmits his empire to his sons and grandsons during a period of seventy one divine ages ; and such a period they name a Matipantara ; but since fourteen multiplied... | |
 | John Bayley Sommers Carwithen - 1810 - 352 pages
...Menu is believed to preside over the world. The reign of fourteen Menus constitutes a day of Brahma ; each Menu, they suppose, transmits his empire to his sons and grandsons during a period of sevepty one divine ages; and such a period they name a Manwftntara; but since fourteen multiplied by... | |
 | Vans Kennedy - 1831 - 666 pages
...every thousand such ages, or in every day of Brahma, fourteen Menus are successively invested by him with the sovereignty of the earth : each Menu, they...empire to his sons and grandsons during a period of seventy-one divine ages ; and such a period they name a mantcantara i but, since fourteen multiplied... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1835 - 300 pages
...thousand of such ages, or in every day of Brahma, fourteen menus are successively " invested by him with the sovereignty of the earth : each menu, they...empire to his sons and grandsons during a period of seventy -one divine ages ; and such a " period they name a Manwantara ; but, since fourteen multiplied... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1860 - 466 pages
...believe that in every thousand such ages, or in every day of Brahma, fourteen menus are successively invested with the sovereignty of the earth. Each menu they suppose transmits his authority to his sons and grandsons, during a period of seventy-two divine ages, and such a period... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1877 - 468 pages
...believe that in every thousand such ages, or in every day of Brahma, fourteen Menus are successively invested with the sovereignty of the earth. Each Menu they suppose transmits his authority to his sons and grandsons during a period of seventy-two divine ages, and such a period they... | |
 | Sir John William Dawson - 1877 - 456 pages
...believe that in every thousand such ages, or in every day of Brahma, fourteen Menus are successively invested with the sovereignty of the earth. Each Menu they suppose transmits his authority to his sons and grandsons during a period of seventy-two divine ages, and such a period they... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - 1919 - 1112 pages
...They believe that "in every 1000 divine ages, or in every day of Brahma, 14 Menus are successively invested with the sovereignty of the earth ; each...of 71 divine ages ; and such a period they call a Manwantara."22 Let us apply the primitive year of the Pleiades to this enigma, and the solution is... | |
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Seventy-two divine ages are one manwantara. * * * The aggregate of four ages they call a divine age, and believe that in every thousand such ages, or in every day of Brahma, fourteen Menus are successively invested with the sovereignty of the earth. Each... 