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The creation of Svayambhuva Manu and Shatarupa from the body of Brahma are mentioned in the Puranas: [9] [10] [...] O sage, I [Brahma] split myself into two having assumed two forms. One half had the form of a woman and the other half that of a man. [note 1] He then created in her a couple, the means of excellent nature. The man was Svayambhuva ...
In other texts, it is the manasaputra, the mind-born children of Brahma, who are believed to have created the first man, Svayambhuva Manu, and the first woman, Shatarupa. [5] Shatarupa marries Svayambhuva, and the couple had five children — two sons, Priyavrata and Uttānapāda, and three daughters, Ākūti, Devahūti, and Prasuti. [6]
In later texts, Manu is the title or name of fourteen rulers of earth, or alternatively as the head of dynasties that begin with each cyclic kalpa (aeon) when the universe is born anew. [1] The title of the text Manusmriti uses this term as a prefix, but refers to the first Manu – Svayambhuva, the spiritual son of Brahma.
The Manasaputras are believed to have created the first man, Svayambhuva Manu, and the first woman, Shatarupa, who had five children, who went on to populate the earth. [ 4 ] Lists
Svayambhuva Manu had a wife named Shatarupa. After ruling the earth for many years, he decides pass the throne to his son and retires to the forest with Shatarupa and meditate upon the Lord. Manu and Shatarupa first sacrifice food and then water and are finally willing to sacrifice air.
Prasuti is the daughter of Svayambhuva Manu and Shatarupa. [3] [4] Marriage and children
Manu Smriti 1.32 states that Brahman divided his body into two, one male and the other female, from the female was born Viraja who produced Svayambhuva Manu who created the ten Prajapatis. According to the Bhavishya Purana – the male was Manu and the female was Shatarupa, creation commenced with
Various deities and entities featured in Hindu literature and tradition are regarded to be svayambhu, such as Brahman in the Upanishads, and the Trimurti of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, and Manu in the Puranas. [4] [5]