manuH [ man-u Uṇ. 1. 10 ] 1 N. of a celebrated personage regarded as the representative man and father of the human race (sometimes regarded as one of the divine beings). 2 Particularly, the fourteen successive progenitors on sovereigns of the earth mentioned in Ms. 1. 63. The first Manu called svapyaMBuvamanu is supposed to be a sort of secondary creator, who produced the ten Prajāpatis or Maharshis and to whom the code of laws known as Manusmṛti is ascribed. The seventh Manu called vEvasvatamanu , being supposed to be born from the sun, is regarded as the progenitor of the present race of living beings and was saved from a great flood by Viṣṇu in the form of a fish, cf. matsyAvatAra ; he is also regarded as the founder of the solar race of kings who ruled at Ayodhyā; see U. 6. 18 ; R. 1. 11. The names of the fourteen Manus in ( pb ) order are: 1 svAyaMBuva , 2 svArociza , 3 Ottami , 4 tAmasa , . rEvata , 6 cAkzuza 7 vEvasvata , 8 sAvarRi , 9 dakzasAvarRi , 10 brahmasAvarRi , 11 DarmasAvarRi , 12 rudrasAvarRi , 13 rOcya-dEvasAvarRi and 14 iMdrasa varRi . 3 A symbolical expression for the number ‘fourteen’. 4 A man, mankind ( opp. evil spirits). 5 Thought, thinking or mental faculty ( Ved. ). 6 A prayer, sacred text or sped ( maMtra ). — nuH f. The wife of Manu. Comp. — aMtaraM the period or age of a Manu; this period, according to Ms. 1. 79 , comprises 4,320,000 human years or one-fourteenth day of Brahmā, the fourteen Manvantaras making up one whole day; each of these fourteen, periods is supposed to be presided over by its own Manu; six such periods have already passed away; we are at present living in the seventh, and seven more are yet to come. — jaH a man, mankind. °aDipaH, °aDipatiH, °ISvaraH °patiH, °rAjaH a king, sovereign. °lokaH the world of men, i. e. the earth. — jA a woman. — jAtaH a man. — jyezWaH a sword. — praRIta a. taught or expounded by Manu — BUH a man. mankind. — rAj m. an epithet of Kubera. — SrezWaH an epithet of Viṣṇu. — saMhitA the code of laws ascribed to the first Manu, the institutes of Manu.