Vaivasvata Manu
Vaivasvata Manu, son of Vivasvat (Sūrya), the progenitor of mankind and survivor of the great deluge — the Indian counterpart of the flood-patriarch. Child of Sūrya (parentId hindu_surya, father); his mother is Saraṇyū / Saṃjñā, who has no registered figure and so is named here rather than placed in parentIds. Typed demigod by the mandated descent rule (Sūrya deity 1.0 + unregistered mother 0.0, /2 = 0.5 → demigod) and by the 'first man / divine-born mortal-ancestor' reading; this is the drift-safe lower tier (a deity claim would be auto-reclassified down). Full-sibling edge to hindu_yami (reciprocated in-batch) and brother-edge to the existing hindu_yama (one-way). 'Vaivasvata' currently exists in the corpus only as an epithet inside the Yama entry; this is his first standalone figure.
Parentage
- father: Sūrya
Children
Domains
- progenitorship of mankind
- law and dharma
- kingship and the solar dynasty
Powers
- Rides out the world-flood by the fish-guided ship
- Re-peoples the earth as father of mankind
- Lays down the law and duties of mankind
Epithets
- वैवस्वतṚgveda 10.14.1; Mahābhārata (rom. Vaivasvata, 'son of Vivasvat / the Sun') (primary)
- श्राद्धदेवBhāgavata Purāṇa; Mahābhārata (rom. Śrāddhadeva, 'god of the funerary offering') (primary)
- सत्यव्रतBhāgavata Purāṇa 8.24 (rom. Satyavrata, the king Manu of the flood narrative) (primary)
- मानवपिताA.A. Macdonell, Vedic Mythology (1897) (rom. mānava-pitā, 'father of mankind') (secondary)
Relations
- sibling: YamīFull sister in the solar line — Yamī / the river Yamunā, daughter of Vivasvat. Reciprocated within this batch.Purāṇic solar genealogy (children of Vivasvat/Sūrya); Bhāgavata Purāṇa (primary)
- sibling: YamaBrother — Yama, lord of the dead, the other son of Vivasvat. One-way edge to the already-existing hindu_yama. (The dyadic 'twin' is Yama & Yamī specifically; Manu is brother, not twin.)Ṛgveda 10.14; Purāṇic solar genealogy (Manu and Yama both sons of Vivasvat) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Ṛgveda 8.52.1; 10.63.7 (Manu son of Vivasvat); Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa 1.8.1.1-10 (the flood and the arising of Iḍā) (primary); Matsya Purāṇa; Bhāgavata Purāṇa 8.24; Mahābhārata, Vana Parva (the Matsya–Manu episode) (primary); A.A. Macdonell, Vedic Mythology (1897), on Manu, Yama and the Indo-European 'Man/Twin' pair (secondary); Wendy Doniger, The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics, 1981) (secondary)