It will be easily seen from the foregoing statement that a Manu-antaric
period means, as the term implies, the time between the appearance of
two Manus or Dhyan-Chohans: and hence a minor Manu-antara is the
duration of the seven races on any particular planet, and a major
Manu-antara is the period of one human round along the planetary chain.
Moreover, that, as it is said that each of the seven Manus creates 7 x 7
Manus, and that there are 49 root-races on the seven planets during each
Round, then every root-race has its Manu. The present seventh Manu is
called "Vaivasvata," and stands in the exoteric texts for that Manu who
represents in India the Babylonian Xisusthrus and the Jewish Noah. But
in the esoteric books we are told that Manu Vaivasvata, the progenitor
of our fifth race--who saved it from the flood that nearly exterminated
the fourth (Atlantean)--is not the seventh Manu, mentioned in the
nomenclature of the Root, or primitive Manus, but one of the 49
"emanated from this 'root'--Manu."
For clearer comprehension we here give the names of the 14 Manus in
their respective order and relation to each Round:--
1st 1st (Root) Manu on Planet A.-Swayambhuva
Round. 1st (Seed) Manu on Planet G.-Swarochi
(or)Swarotisha
2nd 2nd (R.) M. on Planet A.-Uttama
Round 2nd (S.) M. " " G.-Thamasa
3rd 3rd (R.) M. " " A.-Raivata
Round 3rd (S.) M. " " G.-Chackchuska
4th 4th (R.) M. " " A.-Vaivasvata (our progenitor)
Round 4th (S.) M. " " G.-Savarni
5th 5th (R.) M. " " A.-Daksha Savarni
Round 5th (S.) M. " " G.-Brahma Savarni
6th 6th (R.) M. on Planet A.-Dharma Savarni
Round 6th (S.) M. " " G.-Rudra Savarni
7th 7th (R.) M. " " A.-Rouchya
Round 7th (S.) M. " " G.-Bhoutya
Vaivasvata thus, though seventh in the order given, is the primitive
Root-Manu of our fourth Human Wave (the reader must always remember that
Manu is not a man but collective humanity), while our Vaivasvata was but
one of the seven Minor Manus who are made to preside over the seven
races of this our planet. Each of these has to become the witness of
one of the periodical and ever-recurring cataclysms (by fire and water
in turn) that close the cycle of every root-race. And it is this
Vaivasvata--the Hindu ideal embodiment called respectively Xisusthrus,
Deukalion, Noah, and by other names--who is the allegorical man who
rescued our race when nearly the whole population of one hemisphere
perished by water, while the other hemisphere was awakening from its
temporary obscuration.
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