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| Canto 3: The Status Quo | Chapter 11: Calculation of Time, from the Atom |
Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 3.11.24
SYNONYMS
svam -- own; svam -- accordingly; kalam -- duration of life; manuh -- Manu; bhunkte -- enjoys; sa-adhikam -- a little more than; hi -- certainly; eka-saptatim -- seventy-one.
TRANSLATION
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 Vishnu Purana. 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.
Copyright (c) The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness