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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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स्वं स्वं कालं मनुर्भुङ्क्ते साधिकां ह्येकसप्ततिम्
svaṁ svaṁ kālaṁ manur bhuṅkte sādhikāṁ hy eka-saptatim
WORD BY WORD
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.
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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.
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