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mahamanvantara

mahamanvantara noun: a cosmic ‘great day’ of universal activity, comprising 4.32 billion years.

Noun

mahamanvantara

  1. (Hinduism) A cosmic ‘great day’ of universal activity, comprising 4.32 billion years.
    • 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 384
    • Paranirvana, no less than Nirvana, belongs to Time, a Mahamanvantara at the longest.1890, Lucifer, vol. V, no. 30, p. 480

Origin of mahamanvantara

From Sanskrit महमन्वन्तर (mahamanvantara).

Questions about mahamanvantara

What does mahamanvantara mean?
Mahamanvantara means a cosmic ‘great day’ of universal activity, comprising 4.32 billion years.
What part of speech is mahamanvantara?
Mahamanvantara is a noun.

Words near mahamanvantara in the dictionary

  1. mahalo
  2. mahals
  3. Mahamad
  4. Mahamagham
  5. Mahamaham
  6. mahamanvantara
  7. mahamari
  8. Mahamat
  9. Mahamath
  10. Mahamed
  11. Mahamet

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