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* The fact that Manu himself is made to declare that he was created by
Viraj and then produced the ten Prajapatis, who again produced seven
Menus, who in their turn gave birth to seven other Manus (Manu, I.
33-36), relates to other still earlier mysteries, and is at the same
time a blind with regard to the doctrine of the Septenary chain.
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It will be easily seen from the foregoing statement that a Manu-antaric period means, as the term implies, the time between the appearance of two Manus or Dhyan-Chohans:  and hence a minor Manu-antara is the duration of the seven races on any particular planet, and a major Manu-antara is the period of one human round along the planetary chain.  Moreover, that, as it is said that each of the seven Manus creates 7 x 7 Manus, and that there are 49 root-races on the seven planets during each Round, then every root-race has its Manu.  The present seventh Manu is called “Vaivasvata,” and stands in the exoteric texts for that Manu who represents in India the Babylonian Xisusthrus and the Jewish Noah.  But in the esoteric books we are told that Manu Vaivasvata, the progenitor of our fifth race—­who saved it from the flood that nearly exterminated the fourth (Atlantean)—­is not the seventh Manu, mentioned in the nomenclature of the Root, or primitive Manus, but one of the 49 “emanated from this ’root’—­Manu.”

For clearer comprehension we here give the names of the 14 Manus in their respective order and relation to each Round:—­

1st 1st (Root) Manu on Planet A.-Swayambhuva
Round. 1st (Seed) Manu on Planet G.-Swarochi
          
                                 (or)Swarotisha

2nd      2nd (R.)     M.    on Planet   A.-Uttama
Round    2nd (S.)     M.     "    "     G.-Thamasa

3rd      3rd (R.)     M.     "    "     A.-Raivata
Round    3rd (S.)     M.     "    "     G.-Chackchuska

4th      4th (R.)     M.     "    "     A.-Vaivasvata (our progenitor)
Round    4th (S.)     M.     "    "     G.-Savarni

5th      5th (R.)     M.     "    "     A.-Daksha Savarni
Round    5th (S.)     M.     "    "     G.-Brahma Savarni

6th      6th (R.)     M.  on    Planet  A.-Dharma Savarni
Round    6th  (S.)    M.  "      "      G.-Rudra Savarni

7th      7th  (R.)    M.  "      "      A.-Rouchya
Round    7th  (S.)    M.  "      "      G.-Bhoutya

Vaivasvata thus, though seventh in the order given, is the primitive Root-Manu of our fourth Human Wave (the reader must always remember that Manu is not a man but collective humanity), while our Vaivasvata was but one of the seven Minor Manus who are made to preside over the seven races of this our planet.  Each of these has to become the witness of one of the periodical and ever-recurring cataclysms (by fire and water in turn) that close the cycle of every root-race.  And it is this Vaivasvata—­the Hindu ideal embodiment called respectively Xisusthrus, Deukalion, Noah, and by other names—­who is the allegorical man who rescued our race when nearly the whole population of one hemisphere perished by water, while the other hemisphere was awakening from its temporary obscuration.