SB 3.11.24: Difference between revisions

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Third Canto - Chapter 11: Calculation of Time, from the Atom

SB 3.11.23 - SB 3.11.25

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 24

svaṁ svaṁ kālaṁ manur bhuṅkte

sādhikāṁ hy eka-saptatim

SYNONYMS

svam — own; svam — accordingly; kālam — duration of life; manuḥ — Manu; bhuṅkte — enjoys; sa-adhikām — 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 Viṣṇu Purāṇa. 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.

SB 3.11.23 - SB 3.11.25

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