mánu mfn. thinking, wise, intelligent, [VS.]; [ŚBr.]
mánu m. ‘the thinking creature (?)’, man, mankind, [RV.]; [VS.]; [AitBr.]; [TĀr.] (also as opp. to evil spirits, [RV. i, 130, 8]; [viii, 98, 6] &c.; the Ṛbhus are called manor nápātaḥ, the sons of man, [iii, 60, 3])
the Man par excellence or the representative man and father of the human race (regarded in the [RV.] as the first to have instituted sacrifices and religious ceremonies, and associated with the Ṛṣis Kaṇva and Atri; in the [AitBr.] described as dividing his possessions among some of his sons to the exclusion of one called Nābhā-nediṣṭha q.v.; called Sāṃvaraṇa as author of [RV. ix, 101, 10]-[12]; Āpsava as author of [ib.] [106], [7]-[9]; in [Naigh. v, 6] he is numbered among the 31 divine beings of the upper sphere, and [VS. xi, 66] as father of men even identified with Prajā-pati; but the name Manu is esp. applied to 14 successive mythical progenitors and sovereigns of the earth, described, [Mn. i, 63] and in later works as creating and supporting this world through successive Antaras or long periods of time See manv-antara below; the first is called Svāyambhuva as sprung from svayam-bhū, the Self-existent, and described in [Mn. i, 34] as a sort of secondary creator, who commenced his work by producing 10 Prajāpatis or Maharṣis, of whom the first was marīci, Light; to this Manu is ascribed the celebrated ‘code of Manu’, see manu-saṃhitā, and two ancient Sūtra works on Kalpa and Gṛhya i.e. sacrificial and domestic rites; he is also called Hairaṇyagarbha as son of Hiraṇya-garbha, and Prācetasa, as son of Pra-cetas; the next 5 Manus are called Svārociṣa, Auttami, Tāmasa, Raivata, Cākṣuṣa cf. [IW. 208 n. 1]; the 7th Manu, called vaivasvata, Sun-born, or from his piety, satya-vrata, is regarded as the progenitor of the present race of living beings, and said, like the Noah of the Old Testament, to have been preserved from a great flood by Viṣṇu or Brahmā in the form of a fish: he is also variously described as one of the 12 Ādityas, as the author of [RV. viii, 27]-[31], as the brother of Yama, who as a son of the Sun is also called Vaivasvata, as the founder and first king of Ayodhyā, and as father of Ilā who married Budha, son of the Moon, the two great solar and lunar races being thus nearly related to each other See [IW. 344]; [373]; the 8th Manu or first of the future Manus accord. to [VP. iii, 2], will be Sāvarṇi; the 9th Dakṣa-sāvarṇi; the 10th Brahma-sāvarṇi; the 11th Dharma-sāvarṇi; the 12th Rudra-sāvarṇi; the 13th Raucya or Deva-sāvarṇi; the 14th Bhautya or Indra-s°)
thought (= manas), [TS.]; [Br.]
a sacred text, prayer, incantation, spell (= mantra), [RāmatUp.]; [Pañcar.]; [Pratāp.]
N. of an Agni, [MBh.]
of a Rudra, [Pur.]
of Kṛśāśva, [BhP.]
of an astronomer, [Cat.]
(pl.) the mental powers, [BhP.]
N. of the number ‘fourteen’ (on account of the 14 Manus), [Sūryas.]
mánu f. Manu's wife (= manāvī), [L.]; Trigonella Corniculata, [L.]
[cf. Goth. manna; Germ. Mannus, mentioned by Tacitus as the mythical ancestor of the West-Germans, Mann, man; Angl.Sax. man; Eng. man.]
mánu &c. See p. 784, col. 2.