Devanagari
स्वं स्वं कालं मनुर्भुङ्क्ते साधिकां ह्येकसप्ततिम् ॥ २४ ॥
Verse text
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.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Each Manvantara extends for a little over seventy-one yugas.
A Manu rules for a little more than seventy-one yuga cycles. This is a little over 852,000 devatā years or 306,720,000 human years. This is confirmed in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa.
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.