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The following is the order of planetary succession according
to the second school, which prevails all over India, except in
Bengal:
Sun 6 years, Moon 10, Mars 7, Rahu 18, Brihaspati 16, Saturn
19, Mercury 17, Ketu 7 a"nd Venus 20. Thus if a man lives for 120
years, all the planets will in turn have influenced his life in the above
order, commencing from the planet of his birth. Again there will be
corresponding sub-runs of all the planets during each planetary run.
The races are also governed by such planetary influences.
The Solar Dynasty means that the particular type of humanity
so denoted was born under the influence of the solar planet. When
all the planets have in turn exercised their influence over this Dynas-
ty, it disappears for a time and is re-born under the influence of the
Sun.
Similarly there will be a revival of the Lunar dynasty that
which commenced under the influence of the Moon.
The law of planetary influence over the human races is not as
clearly known as that over individual men. Otherwise the future
history of rach race would not be the sealed book to us which it is.
The humanity of the present Manvantara was first born under
the influence of the Solar Planet. Our Moon is the son of the Sun-
God.
The races that first appeared were called Solar races.
Other races appeared under the influence of the Moon. In
these races we find first the influence of Brihaspati or Jupiter, through
his wife Tara, then of Budha or Mercury, and lastly of Sukra or
Venus, through his daughter Devayani.
This planetary succession may be only a Sub-run of the
planets. We read, in the account of the previous Manvantaras, of
the appearance of Sukra as the guide of the Daityas, and of Brihas-
pati as the guide of the Devas. We have also read of the appearance
of Rahu in the sixth Manvantara. This shews that the mam planet-
ary round has to be found in the Kalpa itself.
Our knowledge on the whole subject is however so poor that
it is unsafe to make any distinct suggestion.
Now we shall take the Solar Races, or the sons of Vaivasvat
Manu, in order of their treatment in the text. Prishadhta and Kavi
were the first spiritual races. They did not marry i. e. there was no
sexual reproduction among them.
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