Aurva (Ṛshi of the Sāvarṇi Manvantara)
Aurva
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Aurva, named with the gotra name Kāśyapa, is one of the seven ṛshis of the coming manvantara of Sāvarṇi Manu, the Manu who follows the present Vaivasvata age. The Brahma Purāṇa names him last among those seven, after Rāma, Vyāsa, Aśvatthāmā, Ajara, Śaradvān and Gālava.
The ṛshis of the Sāvarṇi manvantara
In Chapter 5, the Manvantara-kīrtana (“the telling of the manvantaras”), the munis ask Lomaharshaṇa how many Manus there are, what their times are and what happened in each. The Sūta answers that the history of the manvantaras cannot be told in full even in a thousand years, so he tells it in brief: for each Manu, the saptarshis, the line of sons and grandsons, and the groups of devas.
After the seven Manus down to Vaivasvata, in whose manvantara the world now stands, he turns to the Manus to come. In the time of Sāvarṇi Manu, he says, these seven will be the ṛshis: Rāma; Vyāsa (Ātreya); Aśvatthāmā (Bhāradvāja, Drauṇi); Ajara; Śaradvān (Gautama); Gālava (Kauśika); and Aurva (Kāśyapa). Aurva is the seventh named.
The sons of Sāvarṇi Manu, the Sūta says, will be Vairi, Adhvarīvān, Śamana, Dhṛtimān, Vasu, Arishṭa, Adhṛshṭa, Vāji and Sumati.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5
Sāvarṇi Manu
The Purāṇa tells the birth of that Manu in the next chapter. Āditya (the Sun) begot him of Chāyā, the second Saṃjñā, and because he resembled the Manu born before him he too was called Sāvarṇa Manu. Sāvarṇi Prajāpati will be the Manu of the Sāvarṇi manvantara, and he is performing tapas on Mount Meru even now.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 6
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 5–6