Meanings
- HinduismA cosmic ‘great day’ of universal activity, comprising 4.32 billion years.
Someone was to read them there after a few thousand years, a mahamanvantara.
1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 3: Proteus]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 412 more examples
Becoming the Swan of Eternity, Brahmâ, at the beginning of each Mahâmanvantara, lays a Golden Egg, which typifies the great Circle, or ◯, itself a symbol for the Universe and its spherical bodies.
1888, Helena Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, page 384Paranirvana, no less than Nirvana, belongs to Time, a Mahamanvantara at the longest.
1890, Lucifer, volume V, number 30, page 480
Origin
- Sanskritमहमन्वन्तर
- Englishmahamanvantara
From Sanskrit महमन्वन्तर (mahamanvantara).
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