महर्षयः सप्त पूर्वे चत्वारो मनवस्तथा | मद्भावा मानसा जाता येषां लोक इमाः प्रजाः ||१०-६||
maharṣayaḥ sapta pūrve catvāro manavastathā . madbhāvā mānasā jātā yeṣāṃ loka imāḥ prajāḥ ||10-6||
- mahā-ṛṣayaḥ
- the great sages
- sapta
- seven
- pūrve
- before
- catvāraḥ
- four
- manavaḥ
- Manus
- tathā
- also
- mat-bhāvāḥ
- born of Me
- mānasāḥ
- from the mind
- jātāḥ
- born
- yeṣām
- of them
- loke
- in the world
- imāḥ
- all this
- prajāḥ
- population
The seven great sages and before them the four other great sages and the Manus [progenitors of mankind] come from Me, born from My mind, and all the living beings populating the various planets descend from them.