SB 3.11.24
His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 24
- 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.
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.