Text 8] The Manus, Administrators of the Universe 9

because one becomes king he should unnecessarily spend money for
sense gratification. As soon as kings became degraded, spending money
for sense gratification, they were lost. Similarly, at the present moment,
monarchy having been lost, the people have created democracy, which is
also failing. Now, by the laws of nature, the time is coming when dic-
tatorship will put the citizens into more and more difficulty. If the king
or dictator individually, or the members of the government collectively,
cannot maintain the state or kingdom according to the rules of Manu-
samhitd, certainly their government will not endure.

TEXT 8

Gr Wad Waa Ws Wa |
IAAT IRAE AT Ill

sunandayam varsa-satam
padaikena bhuvam sprsan
tapyamanas tapo ghoram

idam anvaha bharata

sunandayam—on the bank of the River Sunanda; varsa-Satam—for
one hundred years; pada-ekena—on one leg; bhuvam—the earth;
sprsan—touching; tapyamadnah—he performed austerities; tapah—
austerities; ghoram—very severe; idam—the following; anvaha—and
spoke; bhdrata—O scion of Bharata.

TRANSLATION

O scion of Bharata, after Svayambhuva Manu had thus entered
the forest with his wife, he stood on one leg on the bank of the
River Sunanda, and in this way, with only one leg touching the
earth, he performed great austerities for one hundred years.
While performing these austerities, he spoke as follows.

PURPORT

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura comments that the word anvaha
means that he chanted or murmured to himself, not that he lectured to
anyone.
