The Secret Doctrine, Volume II. Anthropogenesis

Chapter 1487

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Notwithstanding the terrible, and evidently purposed, confusion of Manus, Rishis, and their progeny in the Purânas, one thing is made clear: there have been and there will be seven Rishis in every Root-Race, called also Manvantara in the sacred books, just as there are fourteen Manus in every Round, the presiding Gods, the Rishis and sons of the Manus, being identical. (See Vishnu Purâna, III. i; Wilson’s Trans., iii. 19.) Six Manvantaras are given, the seventh being our own, in the Vishnu Purâna. The Vâyu Purâna furnishes the nomenclature of the sons of the fourteen Manus in every Manvantara, and the sons of the seven Sages or Rishis. The latter are the progeny of the Progenitors of mankind. All the Purânas speak of the seven Prajâpatis of this period or Round.

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