[man-u Uṇ. 1. 10] 1 N. of a celebrated personage regarded as the representative man and father of the human race (some- times regarded as one of the di- vine beings).

2 Particularly, the fourteen successive progenitors on sovereigns of the earth mentioned in Ms. 1. 63. (The first Manu called svapyaṃbhuvamanu is supposed to be a sort of secondary creator, who produced the ten Prajāpatis or Ma- harshis and to whom...