Chakshusha is a figure of Hindu mythology, the

Manu Manu may refer to: Geography * Manú Province, a province of Peru, in the Madre de Dios Region **Manú National Park, Peru ** Manú River, in southeastern Peru * Manu River (Tripura), which originates in India and flows into Bangladesh *Manu Tem ...

of the sixth

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, son of Ripu by Vrihati. The Márkandeya has a legend of his birth as a son of Kshatriya ; of his being exchanged at his birth for the son of Visranta Rája, and being brought up by the prince as his own ; of his revealing the business when a man, and propitiating

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by his devotions, in consequence of which he became a Manu. In his former birth he was born from the eye of Brahma; whence his name from Chakshush 'the eye.'

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{{Reflist Characters in Hindu mythology