Svārocisha Manu
Svārocisha
Datta has other meanings too: see all meanings of Datta. Caitra has other meanings too: see all meanings of Caitra. Prāṇa has other meanings too: see all meanings of Prāṇa. Āpa has other meanings too: see all meanings of Āpa. Cyavana has other meanings too: see all meanings of Cyavana. Nabhas has other meanings too: see all meanings of Nabhas. Ūrjas has other meanings too: see all meanings of Ūrjas.
Svārocisha is the second of the fourteen Manus. Sumantu Muni tells King Śatānīka in the Brahma Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa that the first Manu is Svāyambhuva, after him Svārocisha, then Uttama, Tāmasa, Raivata and Cākshusha; these six have passed, and the seventh, Vaivasvata, is the present one (Brahma Parva, Chapter 125).
Bhagavān Śrī Kṛshṇa tells Yudhishṭhira the same: six Manus have passed, Svāyambhuva, Svārocisha, Uttama, Tāmasa, Raivata and Cākshusha, and at this time Vaivasvata Manu is present, and the earth is filled with his sons and grandsons (Uttara Parva, Chapter 2).
In the account of Sāmbharāyaṇī, Devarāja Indra and Devaguru Bṛhaspati asked her about the Manus Svāyambhuva, Svārocisha, Uttama, Tāmasa, Raivata, Cākshusha and others, the manvantaras and the Indras gone by, and Sāmbharāyaṇī told every account exactly (Uttara Parva, Chapter 107).
The Brahma Purāṇa too names Svārocisha as the second Manu, and gives the ṛshis of his manvantara, its devas, the Tushitas, and his nine sons (Chapter 5).
Per Brahma Purāṇa
The munis ask the wise Lomaharshaṇa to describe all the manvantaras and the special creation of each: how many Manus there are, what their times are, and what happened in their times. The Sūta answers that he will tell the history of the manvantaras in brief, for it cannot be told in full even in a thousand years. He names the Manus in order, Svāyambhuva first, then Svārocisha, then Uttama, Tāmasa, Raivata, Cākshusha and Vaivasvata, whose manvantara is running now.
In the time of Svārocisha, whom the Sūta here calls Svāroci Manu, the ṛshis were Urva, Stamba, Kaśyapa, Prāṇa, Bṛhaspati, Datta, Atri and Cyavana. The devas of that manvantara were the seven Tushitas, devas of great vows (mahā-vratas). The sons of Svārocisha were Havighna, Sukṛti, Jyoti, Āpa, Mūrti, Pratīta, Nabhasya, Nabhas and Ūrjas. “This,” says the Sūta, “is the matter of the second manvantara.”
Of all the fourteen Manus the Sūta says that by them this earth of seven dvīpas is ruled for a thousand yugas, and that seventy-one mahāyugas are the full lifespan of a Prajāpati. The Manus increase fame; they are proclaimed in the Vedas and in the Purāṇas; they are Prajāpatis, and the telling of their names brings blessedness.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5
Sources
- Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapter 125; Uttara Parva, Chapters 2, 107
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5