अधर्मलक्षणा नाना नरकाश्चानुवर्णिताः ।
मन्वन्तरश्च व्याख्यात आद्यः स्वायम्भुवो यतः ॥३॥

adharma-lakṣaṇā nānā
narakāś cānuvarṇitāḥ
manvantaraś ca vyākhyāta
ādyaḥ svāyambhuvo yataḥ

1 times this text was mentioned in purports to other texts: LSB(1)

 adharma-lakṣaṇāḥ - symptomized by impious activities; nānā - various; narakāḥ - hells; ca - also; anuvarṇitāḥ - have been described; manu-antaraḥ - the change of Manus [in one day of Brahmā there are fourteen Manus]; ca - also; vyākhyātaḥ - has been described; ādyaḥ - the original; svāyambhuvaḥ - directly the son of Lord Brahmā; yataḥ - wherein.


Text

You have also described [at the end of the Fifth Canto] the varieties of hellish life that result from impious activities, and you have described [in the Fourth Canto] the first manvantara, which was presided over by Svāyambhuva Manu, the son of Lord Brahmā.

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