मन्वन्तराधिपतयः ॥२८॥
anyasyÄm api jÄyÄyÄá¹ trayaḥ putrÄ Äsann uttamas tÄmaso raivata iti manvantarÄdhipatayaḥ
anyasyÄm - other; api - also; jÄyÄyÄm - in the wife; trayaḥ - three; putrÄḥ - sons; Äsan - there were; uttamaḥ tÄmasaḥ raivataḥ - Uttama, TÄmasa and Raivata; iti - thus; manu-antara - of the manvantara millennium; adhipatayaḥ - rulers.
In his other wife, MahÄrÄja Priyavrata begot three sons, named Uttama, TÄmasa and Raivata. All of them later took charge of manvantara millenniums.
In every day of BrahmÄ there are fourteen manvantaras. The duration of one manvantara, the life span of one Manu, is seventy-one yugas, and each yuga is 4,320,000 years. Almost all the Manus selected to rule the manvantaras came from the family of MahÄrÄja Priyavrata. Three of them are particularly mentioned herein, namely Uttama, TÄmasa and Raivata.
