स्वं स्वं कालं मनुर्भुङ्क्ते साधिकां ह्येकसप्ततिम् ॥२४॥

svaá¹ svaá¹ kÄlaá¹ manur bhuá¹…kte
sÄdhikÄá¹ hy eka-saptatim

 svam - own; svam - accordingly; kÄlam - duration of life; manuḥ - Manu; bhuá¹…kte - enjoys; sa-adhikÄm - a little more than; hi - certainly; eka-saptatim - seventy-one.


Text

Each and every Manu enjoys a life of a little more than seventy-one sets of four millenniums.

Purport

The duration of life of a Manu comprises seventy-one sets of four millenniums, as described in the Viṣṇu PurÄṇa. The duration of life of one Manu is about 852,000 years in the calculation of the demigods, or, in the calculation of human beings, 306,720,000 years.