manusmriti

LAWS OF MANU
The Lemuria theory disappeared completely from conventional scientific consideration
after the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift were accepted by the larger
scientific community. According to the theory of plate tectonics (the current accepted
paradigm in geology), Madagascar and India were indeed once part of the same
landmass (thus accounting for geological resemblances), but plate movement caused
India to break away millions of years ago, and move to its present location. The
original landmass broke apart – it did not sink beneath sea level. [
For a recent review of the concept see: http://ancientvoice.wikidot.com/article:kumarikandam
In Theosophy, the "Vaivasvatu Manu" is one of the most important beings at the
highest levels of Initiation of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, along with Sanat
Kumara, Gautama Buddha, Maitreya, the Maha Chohan, and Djwal Khul. According to
Theosophy, each root race has its own Manu which physically incarnates in an
advanced body of an individual of the old root race and physically progenerates with a
suitable female partner the first individuals of the new root race.
Mannus is a Germanic mythological figure attested by the 1st century AD Roman
historian Tacitus in his work Germania. According to Tacitus, Mannus is the son of
Tuisto and the progenitor of the three Germanic tribes Ingaevones, Herminones and
Istvaeones.
Tacitus (Germania, chapter 2)
"In ancient lays, their only type of historical tradition, they celebrate Tuisto, a god
brought forth from the earth. They attribute to him a son, Mannus, the source and
founder of their people, and to Mannus three sons, from whose names those nearest
the Ocean are called Ingvaeones, those in the middle Herminones, and the rest
Isvaeones. Some people, inasmuch as antiquity gives free rein to speculation,
maintain that there were more sons born from the god and hence more tribal
designations—Marsi, Gambrivii, Suebi, and Vandilii—and that those names are
genuine and ancient."
One day while the Emperor Manu was washing his hands in the river a little fish came
flashing to him and asked the king to save Him, and out of compassion, he took him
home and put it in a water jar. It kept growing bigger and bigger, until King Manu first
put Him in a bigger pitcher, and then deposited Him in a well. When the well also
proved insufficient for the ever-growing Fish, the King placed Him in a tank (reservoir),
that was two yojanas (16 miles) in height above the surface and on land, as much in
length, and a yojana (8 miles) in breadth. As it grew further King Manu had to put the
fish in a river, and when even the river proved insufficient he placed it in the ocean,
after which it nearly filled the vast expanse of the great ocean.
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