चतुर्युगसहस्रं तु ब्रह्मणो दिनमुच्यते । स कल्पो यत्र मनवश्चतुर्दश विशाम्पते ॥ २ ॥
catur-yuga-sahasraṁ tu brahmaṇo dinam ucyate sa kalpo yatra manavaś caturdaśa viśām-pate
- catuḥ-yuga
- four ages
- sahasram
- one thousand
- tu
- indeed
- brahmaṇaḥ
- of Lord Brahmā
- dinam
- the day
- ucyate
- is said
- saḥ
- that
- kalpaḥ
- a kalpa
- yatra
- in which
- manavaḥ
- original progenitors of mankind
- caturdaśa
- fourteen
- viśām-pate
- O King
One thousand cycles of four ages constitute a single day of Brahmā, known as a kalpa. In that period, O King, fourteen Manus come and go.