Doha 142
स्वायंभू मनु अरु सतरूपा। जिन्ह तें भै नरसृष्टि अनूपा॥ दंपति धरम आचरन नीका। अजहुँ गाव श्रुति जिन्ह कै लीका॥१॥
नृप उत्तानपाद सुत तासू। ध्रुव हरिभगत भयउ सुत जासू॥ लघु सुत नाम प्रियब्रत ताही। बेद पुरान प्रसंसहिं जाही॥२॥
देवहूति पुनि तासु कुमारी। जो मुनि कर्दम कै प्रिय नारी॥ आदिदेव प्रभु दीनदयाला। जठर धरेउ जेहिं कपिल कृपाला॥३॥
सांख्य सास्त्र जिन्ह प्रगट बखाना। तत्त्व बिचार निपुन भगवाना॥ तेहिं मनु राज कीन्ह बहु काला। प्रभु आयसु सब बिधि प्रतिपाला॥४॥
Meaning
Swāyambhuva* Manu had Śatarūpā as wife; of them was born this human race, peerless in God’s creation. The piety and conduct of the pair were excellent; the standard of morality set up by them is extolled by the Vedas even to this day. (1) * So-called because he was born of Swayambhū (the self-born Brahmā). It is stated in the Purāṇas that the Creator divided himself into two halves, one of which was a male and the other a female. The former was known by the name of Swāyambhuva and the other as Śatarūpā. He was the first of the fourteen Manus who ruled over God’s creation in succession, each holding office for 71.1/2 Caturyugas or repetitions of the four Yugas. Their son was king Uttānapāda, who begot the celebrated devotee of Śrī Hari, Dhruva. Manu’s younger son was known as Priyavrata, who is glorified by the Vedas and the Purāṇas. (2) They had a daughter, too, Devahūti by name, who was the favourite consort of the sage Kardama, and who bore in her womb the accomplished and benevolent Lord Kapila, the primal divinity, who is compassionate to the humble, (3) and who explicitly expounded the philosophy of Sāṅkhya, an adept as He was in the exposition of the ultimate principles. The said Manu ruled for a long period and followed the Lord’s commandments (in the form of the scriptural ordinance) in everyway. (4)
होइ न बिषय बिराग भवन बसत भा चौथपन। हृदयँ बहुत दुख लाग जनम गयउ हरिभगति बिनु॥१४२॥
Meaning
“I have reached the fourth stage of my life (old age) while I am still living in my house (as a householder); but I have not yet attained dispassion for the sensual pleasures,” he said to himself. He felt sore distressed at heart that his life had been wasted without devotion to Śrī Hari. (142)
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