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The seven great sages, the ancient four and also the Manus, possessed of powers like Me (on account of their minds being fixed on Me), were born of (My) mind; from them are these creatures born in this world.

The seven great sages of old, and likewise the four Manus, born of my mind and sharing my nature, are those from whom these creatures of the world have come.

Krishna moves from inner states to the beginnings of the human race. In Puranic accounts, the seven great sages and the Manus are the progenitors and lawgivers from whom the peoples of the world descend. Here they are called mind-born, arising from Krishna's thought rather than from ordinary birth, and sharing his nature. The phrase the four has been read in more than one way: as four further figures alongside the seven, often taken to be the Kumāras, or as part of a count of Manus. Either way, the verse says that the lineages of humanity trace back to the divine.