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

• Sūrya

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

• वैवस्वत
• श्राद्धदेव
• सत्यव्रत
• मानवपिता

Relations

• sibling: Yamī
• sibling: Yama

Sources

• 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)
• Matsya Purāṇa; Bhāgavata Purāṇa 8.24; Mahābhārata, Vana Parva (the Matsya–Manu episode)
• A.A. Macdonell, Vedic Mythology (1897), on Manu, Yama and the Indo-European 'Man/Twin' pair
• Wendy Doniger, The Rig Veda (Penguin Classics, 1981)