### SB 3.11.24

> स्वं स्वं कालं मनुर्भुङ्क्ते साधिकां ह्येकसप्तति ॥२४॥

> svaṁ svaṁ kālaṁ manur bhuṅkte\
> sādhikāṁ hy eka-saptatim

*svam*—own; *svam*—accordingly; *kālam*—duration of life; *manuḥ*—Manu; *bhuṅkte*—enjoys; *sa-adhikām*—a little more than; *hi*—certainly; *eka-saptatim*—seventy-one.

**Each and every Manu enjoys a life of a little more than seventy-one sets of four millenniums.**

The duration of life of a Manu comprises seventy-one sets of four millenniums, as described in the *Viṣṇu Purāṇa.* The duration of life of one Manu is about 852,000 years in the calculation of the demigods, or, in the calculation of human beings, 306,720,000 years.