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Purañjana Becomes a Woman in the Next Life
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TEXT 31
एकैकस्यामवचेषां राजमर्चुदमर्चुदम् । मोह्यते यद्वंशधरैर्मही मन्वन्तरं परम् ॥३१॥
ekaikasyābhavat teṣām rājann arbudam arbudam bhokṣyate yad-vaṁśa-dharair mahī manv-antaraṁ param
eka-ekasya —of each one;  abhavat —there became;  teṣām —of them;  rājan —O King;  arbudam —ten million;  arbudam —ten million;  bhokṣyate —is ruled;  yat —whose;  vaṁśa-dharaiḥ —by descendants;  mahī —the whole world;  manu-antaram —up to the end of one Manu;  param —and afterwards.
TRANSLATION
My dear King Prācīnabarhiṣat, the sons of Malayadhvaja gave birth to many thousands and thousands of sons, and all of these have been protecting the entire world up to the end of one Manu's life span and even afterwards.
PURPORT
There are fourteen Manus in one day of Brahmā. A  manvantara , the life span of one Manu, is given as 71 multiplied by 4,320,000 years. After one such Manu passes on, another Manu begins his life span. In this way the life cycle of the universe is going on. As one Manu follows another, the cult of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is being imparted, as confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā :
śrī bhagavān uvāca imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam vivasvān manave prāha manur ikṣvākave 'bravīt
“The Blessed Lord said: I instructed this imperishable science of  yoga  to the sun-god, Vivasvān, and Vivasvān instructed it to Manu, the father of mankind, and Manu in turn instructed it to Ikṣvāku.” (Bg. 4.1)
Vivasvān, the sun-god, imparted  Bhagavad-gītā  to one Manu, and this Manu imparted it to his son, who imparted it to yet another Manu. In this way the propagation of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is never stopped. No one