ORIENTAL SERIES.

MANTRA MANU. 199
chandra, and led her to persuade King Dasa-ratha to banish
Rama from court. $atru-ghna beat her and threatened to kill
her, but she was saved by his brother Bharata.
MANTEA. That portion of the Yeda which consists of
hymns, as distinct from the Brahmaftas. See Yeda.
MANTT. (From the root man, to think.)
'
The man.' This
name belongs to fourteen mythological progenitors of mankind
and rulers of the earth, each of whom holds sway for the period
called a Manwantara (manurantara)) the age of a Manu, i.e., a
The first of these Manus
period of no less than 4,320,000 years.
was Swayam-bhuva, who sprang from Swayam-bhu, the self-
existent. The self-existentj as identified with Brahma the
creator, divided himself into two persons, male and female.
From this pair was produced the male Yiraj, and from him
sprang the Manu Swayam-bhuva. As the acting creator, this
Manu produced the ten Prajapatis or progenitors of mankind,
called also Maharshis (maha-rishis). According to another ac-
count, this Manu sprang from the incestuous intercourse of
Brahma with his daughter and wife, $ata-rupa. Brahma created
himself Manu, " born of and identical with his original self, ancl
the female portion of himself he constituted $ata-rupa," whom
Manu took to wife. The law-book commonly known as Manu is
ascribed to this Manu, and so also is a Sutra work on ritual bear-
ing the same name. The Manu of the present age is the seventh,
who was the son of Yivaswat, the
named Yaivaswata, c
sun-born, 7
sun, and he is a Kshatriya by race. He is also called Satya-vrata.
There are various legends about his having been saved from a
great flood by Yishnu or Brahma. The names of the fourteen
Manus are
(i.) Swayam-bhuva, (2.) Swarochisha, (3.) Auttami,
(4.) Tamasa, (5.) Eaivata, (6.) Chakshusha, (7.) Yaivaswata or
Satya-vrata, (8.) Savarna, (9.) Daksha-savama, (10.) Brahma-
savarTia, (n.) Dharma-savama, (12.) Savarna or Eudra-savama,
(13.) Eauchya, (14.) Bhautya-.
The sons of Manu Yaivaswata were Ikshwaku, Nabhaga or
Nnga, Dhnshtfa, Saryati, Narishyanta, Pran.su, Nabhaganedishfa
or JSTabhanedish/a, Karusha, and Pn'shadhra. But there is some
variety in the names.
With the seventh Manu, Yaivaswata, is connected the very
curious and interesting legend of the deluge. The first account
of this is found in the $atapatha Brahrnafia, of which the fol-