catur-yuga-sahasraá¹ tu
brahmaṇo dinam ucyate
sa kalpo yatra manavaÅ›
caturdaÅ›a viÅ›Äm-pate

 catuḥ-yuga - four ages; sahasram - one thousand; tu - indeed; brahmaṇaḥ - of Lord BrahmÄ; dinam - the day; ucyate - is said; saḥ - that; kalpaḥ - a kalpa; yatra - in which; manavaḥ - original progenitors of mankind; caturdaÅ›a - fourteen; viÅ›Äm-pate - O King.


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One thousand cycles of four ages constitute a single day of BrahmÄ, known as a kalpa. In that period, O King, fourteen Manus come and go.

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