Are the Manus manvantara-avataras?

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Are the Manus manvantara-avataras?

 

Prahlad Priya Prabhu wrote:

 

> I came accross a paragraph in the purport of SB 1.3.5 where in Srila

> Prabhupada is describing about names of various Manus. It appears that the

> Vaivasvat manu, who is the present Manu, is an expansion of Vamana Dev. It

> is not clearly mentioned like that. So could you please confirm whehter it

> is so.

 

SB 1.3.5 purp:

 

> The Manus who are prominent within this universe are as follows: Yajna as

> Svayambhuva Manu, Vibhu as Svarocisa Manu, Satyasena as Uttama Manu, Hari

> as Tamasa Manu, Vaikuntha as Raivata Manu, Ajita as Caksusa Manu, Vamana

> as Vaivasvata Manu (the present age is under the Vaivasvata Manu),

> Sarvabhauma as Savarni Manu, Rsabha as Daksasavarni Manu, Visvaksena as

> Brahma-savarni Manu, Dharmasetu as Dharma-savarni Manu, Sudhama as

> Rudra-savarni Manu, Yogesvara as Deva-savarni Manu, and Brhadbhanu as

> Indra-savarni Manu. These are the names of one set of fourteen Manus

> covering 4,300,000,000 solar years as described above.

 

Prabhupada names the manavantara or kalpa incarnations of the Lord which

appear in the period corresponding Manus.

 

Like Yajna appears in the period of Svayambhuva Manu, Vibhu during Svarocisa

Manu, Satyasena during Uttama Manu, Hari during Tamasa Manu, Vaikuntha

during Raivata Manu .... and Vamana during Vaivasvata Manu.

 

All these incarnations are described in Laghu Bhagavtamrta Chapter 4 by Rupa

Goswami.

 

So actually speaking Yajna, Vibhu, Hari, Vamana etc are manvantara or kalpa

avataras of the Lord and that is why Prabhupada names them together with the

Manus.

 

The wife of Prajapati Daksa was named Prasuti. She was the daughter

of Svayambhuva Manu, the son of Brahma. Svayambhuva Manu and the Prajapatis

were the original inhabitants of Brahmavarta. Another son of Brahma was

Marici, whose son was Kasyapa. The son of Kasyapa was Vivasvan, whose son

was Vaivasvata Manu. The son of Vaivasvata Manu was Iksvaku. From this we

must conclude that the Surya dynasty began with the sixth generation from

Brahma. ...Vamana appeared during the time of Vaivasvata Manu. (Krsna

Samhita by Thakura Bhaktivinoda)

 

Lord Vamana appeared three times in this kalpa. During the reign of the

first (Svayambhuva, Manu, He visited the sacrifice performed by Vaskala, the

king of the danavas. Then, in the reign of Vaivasvata Manu, and visited the

sacrifice performed by Dhundhu. Then, in the seventh catur-yuga of that

manvantara, He appeared as the son of Kasyapa and Aditi. In this way, to

accept a donation, He appeared three times as Lord Trivikrama.

 

Beginning with Lord Vamana, eight of the avataras here described

appeared in the reign of Vaivasvata Manu. These 25 avataras are called

kalpa-avataras because for the most part they appear once in each kalpa.

 

Lord Vamana, who appeared during the reign of Vaivasvata, the seventh

Manu, has already been described. The seven manvantara-avataras that will

appear in the future, in the reigns of Savarni and the other Manus, will now

be described.

 

(Laghu Bhagavatamrta)

 

FOR MORE INFO:

 

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The manvantara-avataras, beginning with Lord Yajna and ending with Lord

Brhadbhanu, appear, one after another, in the reigns of the Manus beginning

with Svayambhuva Manu.

 

text 5

 

Lord Vibhu in the reign of Svarocisa, the second Manu.

 

He is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.1.21-22:

 

"Vedasira' was a very celebrated rsi. From the womb of his wife, whose

name was Tusita, came the avatara named Vibhu.*

 

text 6

 

"Vibhu remained a brahmacari and never married throughout his life. From

him, eighty-eight thousand other saintly persons took lessons on

self-control, austerity and similar behavior."*

 

text 7

 

 

Lord Satyasena appeared during the reign of Uttama, the third Manu.

Satyasena is described in Srimad Bhagavatam 8.1.25-26:

 

"In this manvantara, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared from

the woma of Sunrta, who was the wife of Dharma, the demigod in charge of

religion. The Lord was celebrated as Satyasena, and He appeared with other

demigods, known as the Satyavratas.*

 

text 8

 

"Satyasena, along with His friend Satyajit, who was the King of heaven,

Indra, killed all the untruthful, impious and misbehaved Yaksas, Raksasas

and ghostly living entities, who gave pains to other living beings."*

 

text 9

 

Lord Hari, who appeared during the reign of Tamasa, the fourth Manu, is

described in Srimad-Bhagavatam 8.1.30:

 

"Also in this manvantara, the Supreme Lord, Visnu, took birth from the

woma of Harini, the wife of Harimedha, and He was known as Hari. Hari saved

His devotee Gajendra, the King of the elephants, from the mouth of a

crocodile."*

 

etc. etc.

 

I hope this helps.

 

Your aspiring servant, Nayana-ranjana Das Brahmacari.